International fragmentation, or outsourcing, is often referred to as a distinctly novel feature in today's global … outsourcing targets for western European firms. Against this background this paper provides a policy-oriented discussion of cross … European point of view. Specifically, the paper idetifies conditions under which outsourcing is beneficial for a western …

fragmentation may cause a domestic welfare loss, because outsourcing takes place in discrete steps where it affords firms quasi … process of fragmentation caused by less costly outsourcing is beneficial for the domestic economy. …

outsourcing activities, thereby increasing the wage dispersion and, if labour markets are unionised, also the employment of high … associated with the fall of the Iron Curtain, indeed stimulate outsourcing to Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and … second, that outsourcing to these countries significantly shifts relative employment in favour of high- skilled labour. …

outsourcing, or international fragmentation. Economists have investigated this phenomenon with a focus on welfare and factor price … welfare efect of outsourcing. Moreover, the paper highlights a crucial distinction between outsourcing that takes place in an … firms must rely on arms-length trasactions. The results are as follows. a) With foreign direct investment, outsourcing which …

. The paper identifies conditions under which outsourcing to a low-wage country is a friend or an enemy to domestic labour …

conditions, thereby reducing their opportunities further. One mechanism driving this is the process of (domestic) outsourcing … data to study how the labour market position of lower qualified workers is changing over time and how outsourcing and … between-firm segregation is contributing to this gap. I find that (1) domestic outsourcing is increasing over time and leading …