manufacturing as a result of outsourcing. For Korea, although the overall effects of outsourcing have been insignificant in Korea … and investigates the impacts of international outsourcing on the Japanese and the Korean labour markets. The main findings … outsourcing and the international fragmentation of production. Third, reflecting the fact that outsourcing to Asia (particularly …

This paper examines the hypothesis that manufacturing industries in Japan that have been exposed to import competition …, this has not resulted in substituting skilled workers in Japanese manufacturing. Rather, it has had the profound positive …

Japan and South Korea, this paper aims to investigate the impacts of outsourcing on different sectors of the labor market … focusing on differences in educational attainment. While outsourcing measures used in previous studies only take account of the … outsourcing of intermediate inputs and do not capture the outsourcing of the final production stage (assembly), this paper …

Japan and South Korea, this paper aims to investigate the impacts of outsourcing on different sectors of the labor market … focusing on differences in educational attainment. While outsourcing measures used in previous studies only take account of the … outsourcing of intermediate inputs, this paper, utilizing the Asian International Input-Output Tables, incorporates the …

and South Korea, this paper aims to investigate the impacts of outsourcing on different sectors of the labor market … focusing on differences in educational attainment. While outsourcing measures used in previous studies only take account of the … outsourcing of intermediate inputs, this paper, utilizing the Asian International Input-Output Tables, incorporates the …

stage of entrepreneurial eco-systems in Nordic and Baltic countries. Design/methodology/approach – The editorial first … presents the current status of entrepreneurship in the Nordic and Baltic regions. It then provides an overview of the papers … entrepreneurship development and dynamics in Nordic and Baltic Europe. Originality/value – This editorial and special issue are in tune …

for different skills in the manufacturing sector. We derive and estimate a factor demand system based on the generalised …

includes both intra-firm trade and foreign outsourcing). In response, we utilise a proprietary dataset on greenfield FDI. In …