This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual-level data sets for the three countries and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the...

Why is it that exporter productivity premia (EPP) differ so widely in size? We take this question to the theory and to the data. We derive the sectoral EPP in a standard heterogeneous firms trade model and apply the insights from the model to 13 years of data for all Danish manufacturing firms....

An astonishing 33% of all firm-product-destination export spells in Danish data turn out to be isolated single-month one-off export events (observed once in a 49 month window). On average, for an export-active firm, such one-off exports account for 17% of total foreign sales. These patterns...

This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the...

This paper analyzes the impact of job insecurity perceptions on individual well-being. In contrast to previous studies, we explicitly take into account perceptions about both the likelihood and the potential costs of job loss and demonstrate that most contributions to the literature suffer from...

Ungeachtet der weitgehend vollzogenen Marktöffnung in den Ländern der mittel- und osteuropäischen EU-Beitrittskandidaten blieb die Entwicklung der Warenausfuhren Berlins in diese Region bisher weit hinter den Erwartungen zurück. Zwar spielen die EU-Beitrittskandidaten für die...

Die Auslagerung von Teilen der Produktion ins Ausland, die viele Unternehmen ins Auge fassen und einige bereits durchgeführt haben, ist eines der wirtschaftspolitischen Themen, das zurzeit heftig diskutiert wird. Politiker nennen das schon einmal "mangelnden Patriotismus" oder vergleichen...

The paper starts with a discussion of the development of the number of manufacturing sector jobs in the framework of economic transformation and industrial restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe. Over the past decade, domestically-owned manufacturing companies reduced the number employed...

Our paper investigates the link between international 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 the potential aggregation bias as...