This Briefing Note considers recent trends in specialisation, outsourcing and offshoring of businessservices … activities out of the back office of a factory, and into a specialised payroll office.Outsourcing is specialisation outside the … firm. This occurs when firms opt to ‘buy’ rather than ‘make’ inhouse.Outsourcing involves greater specialisation as firms …

In this paper, we provide first empirical evidence on the effect of outsourcing on union wages using linked employer … industries with high outsourcing intensities. The finding applies to both firm- and sector-level agreements. Hence, outsourcing … appears to deteriorate the bargaining position of unions. Outsourcing is not found to have a negative effect on the wages of …

We analyze the effect of outsourcing on union wages in a simple two-stage game between a firm and a union. In contrast …. -- Collective Bargaining ; International Outsourcing ; Union Wages …

Using microdata, we analyse the determinants of firm relocation and outsourcing decisions and their effects on firms …

This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different … and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the industry level, distinguishing outsourcing by broad region …. Estimating the same specification on different data show that there are some interesting differences in the effect of outsourcing …