Outsourcing is widely associated with accompanied job losses in the outsourcing firm, at least in the short run. However, the medium and long run effects of outsourcing on employment growth might still be positive. This paper particularly focuses on IT outsourcing and its medium-term effects on...

This paper analyzes the impact of office machinery and computer capital (OCM) on the demand for heterogeneous labor. A system of static and dynamic factor demand equations based on a variant of the generalized Box-Cox cost function nesting the translog, the generalized Leontief and the...

Die Autoren stellen in der vorliegenden Studie das Konzept einer Dienstleistungslücke und seiner möglichen Definitionen dar und diskutieren Quantifizierungen im internationalen Vergleich. Dabei relativieren sie stark die häufig anzutreffende Vermutung, die Beschäftigungsprobleme in...