firms in- troducing new or significantly improved products, services, or processes is more than twice as high for those that … import knowl- edge services than for non-importers (68 per cent vs. 33 per cent). Furthermore, knowledge importers experience … a larger revenue share from new products and services (18 per cent vs. eight per cent). Over the course of the previous …

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 …

manifestations, for virtually all countries in the world. The paper starts with a short history of trade in services across centuries …This Policy Brief looks at the latest trends in services trade and tries to show their importance, in its various … trade in services by modes of supply, trying to fill a gap in trade policy analysis and providing new insights on the …

The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) is broader in policy coverage than conventional trade agreements for … sector- or country-specific needs. An overview of existing commitments on healthcare and health insurance services shows that … healthcare services at the end of the Uruguay Round, nor to make offers in the ongoing negotiations, insurance services have been …

-based explanation by focussing on international outsourcing. 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 using more detailed definitions of import … penetration and outsourcing as well as data for UK manufacturing industries for the period 1982-1996. The econometric results …

This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages. In contrast to the standard approach in the … literature, we focus on domestic outsourcing as well as foreign outsourcing. By using a simple theoretical model, we argue that …, if outsourcing is associated with specialization gains arising from an increase in the division of labor, domestic …

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 … fragmentation has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the …

partly imported intermediates (= outsourcing or fragmentation) (ii) increased employment due to higher demand caused by an …