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 …

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 …

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

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. …

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 …

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. …