We quantify the impact of offshoring and other globalisation measures on individual perceptions of job security. For … the analysis we combine industry-level offshoring measures with micro-level data from a large German household panel … survey and estimate ordinal fixed effects models. Our results indicate that offshoring to low-wage countries significantly …

realized offshoring as a threat to enforce lower wages. Using a large German household survey, I can show evidence that … increasing potential offshoring lowers wages through high job loss fears. …

The paper discusses the flexicurity model, its key policy elements, and association with a low unemployment rate and a … high standard of social security for the unemployed. It provides details of an empirical analysis of unemployment …

labor market can coexist with a generous welfare system to achieve low unemployment. Using a panel of 19 countries over 1960 …-2002, the paper identifies the elements of the flexicurity model that may have contributed to the low unemployment rate. A … the financing aspect, the paper finds that effective implementation will depend on the initial unemployment level and …

This paper challenges the conventional academic view that international outsourcing is just another form of gainful … trade. Contrary to this view, we show that labor-service outsourcing can reduce the high-wage country's welfare even when … product-market trade is beneficial, within a model that combines involuntary unemployment and monopolistic competition …

of labor located abroad. In the presence of unemployment, our analysis highlights welfare losses from offshoring—not only …This paper provides theoretical support for the popular objection to offshoring, whereby firms at home employ services … the theoretical literature on offshoring. Our results suggest that public concerns over offshoring are justified when …

We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular …. Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), linked with industry-level data on offshoring of materials and … significant reduction in wages as materials offshoring increases, while permanent workers’ wages are unaffected or even tend to …

We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular …. Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), linked with industry-level data on offshoring of materials and … significant reduction in wages as materials offshoring increases, while permanent workers' wages are unaffected or even tend to …

While recent decades have witnessed a growth in the outsourcing of public services in Britain, the post-1997 UK Labour …