The paper analyzes how international outsourcing affected individual employment security. The analysis is carried out … at the micro-level, combining monthly spell data from household panel data and industry-level outsourcing measures. By … international outsourcing significantly lowers individual employment security. Interestingly, the effect does, however, not differ …

investigate how workers' labour market transitions are affected by international outsourcing. In order to do so, we estimate … nonparticipation. Outsourcing is found to have no significant impact on overall job stability in the manufacturing sector, but it is … associated with increased job stability in the service sector. Furthermore, the effect of outsourcing varies strongly across …

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 …

between labor of different skills (tasks) on the one hand, and technology as well as outsourcing on the other. Our findings …. Outsourcing often correlates negatively with the demand for labor performing explicit and problem-solving tasks. It is mainly … uncorrelated or positively correlated with the demand for labor performing interactive tasks. The outsourcing-related results …

This paper analyses how international outsourcing has affected the relative demand for low skilled workers in Germany … disentangle international outsourcing and trade in final goods more accurately. The main finding is that during the 1990s … international outsourcing had a significant negative impact on the relative demand for low-skilled workers, explaining between 19 …