Japan and South Korea, this paper aims to investigate the impacts of outsourcing on different sectors of the labor market … in Japan and Korea. Moreover, the international outsourcing of assembly has a significant impact on skill upgrading … focusing on differences in educational attainment. While outsourcing measures used in previous studies only take account of the …

in Japan and Korea. Moreover, the international outsourcing of assembly has a significant impact on skill upgrading … and South Korea, this paper aims to investigate the impacts of outsourcing on different sectors of the labor market …Applying a common empirical approach to comparable industry-level data on production, trade,and labor markets for Japan …

manufacturing as a result of outsourcing. For Korea, although the overall effects of outsourcing have been insignificant in Korea … Japan and Korea. Fourth, our empirical analysis provides evidence of labour demand shift towards skilled labour in Japanese … partly because a substantial part of Korean outsourcing remained directed towards Japan, our results imply that labour demand …

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 …

manufacturing as a result of outsourcing. For Korea, although the overall effects of outsourcing have been insignificant in Korea … Japan and Korea. Fourth, our empirical analysis provides evidence of labour demand shift towards skilled labour in Japanese … partly because a substantial part of Korean outsourcing remained directed towards Japan, our results imply that labour demand …

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