This paper analyzes the effects of trade and outsourcing on the transition probabilities of employment between sectors … labor market turnover. Increases in imports, terms of trade and, especially, in the outsourcing share negatively affect the …

This paper analyzes the effects of trade and outsourcing on the transition probabilities of employment between sectors … labor market turnover. Increases in imports, terms of trade and, especially, in the outsourcing share negatively affect the …

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. …

This paper presents first insights into the role of international outsourcing on the productivity of low …-skilled workers in EU manufacturing. Whereas in the short run international outsourcing exhibits a negative marginal effect on real … structure. The change in the outsourcing intensity since 1993 alone acounts for a long-run increase of about 3.3% in the real …

This paper shows that market concentration is positively related to outsourcing activities in a framework of Cournot … competition with strategic outsourcing in a first stage. The theoretical priors are confirmed by rank correlation coefficients …