international outsourcing. It is the first detailed study to address the effects of outsourcing on labour markets in the UK. In a … recent paper, Feenstra and Hanson (1996) estimate the effect of international outsourcing on wage inequality in the US. This … paper extends the FH approach by using more detailed definitions of outsourcing and skill. The analysis applies to UK …

fragmentation has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the …Our paper investigates the link between outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and combining it with … industry level information on industries? outsourcing activities from input-output tables. By doing so we can arguably overcome …

partly imported intermediates (= outsourcing or fragmentation) (ii) increased employment due to higher demand caused by an …This paper attempts to quantify the impact of fragmentation on employment. Factor demand functions for labour and …

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. …

fragmentation. Whereas the growth in North-South trade has been labeled "horizontal globalisation", fragmentation stands for the … "vertical globalisation". First fragmentation is introduced into a Ricardian model with one factor of production in a small … functions where we introduce one or two components. As a result, it seems to be clear that fragmentation is changing …

Our paper investigates the link between international outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and … combining it with industry level information on industries? outsourcing activities from input-output tables. By doing so we can … outsourcing has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the …

This paper investigates empirically the link between international outsourcing and the skill structure of labour demand … in the United Kingdom. It is the first detailed study of this issue for the UK. Outsourcing is calculated using import … factor demands, our main results show that international outsourcing has had a strong negative impact on the demand for …

This paper investigates empirically the link between international outsourcing and the skill structure of labour demand … in the United Kingdom. It is the first detailed study of this issue for the UK. Outsourcing is calculated using import … factor demands, our main results show that international outsourcing has had a strong negative impact on the demand for …

economics. In contrast to previous studies, we illustrate that globalization does not necessarily lead to specialization. The … analysis is conducted in an extended Dixit-Stiglitz- Ethier framework. Whether globalization leads to specialization or to more … to the optimal degree of specialization we show that globalization can reduce the efficiency of the industrial structure. …