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 …

investigate how workers' labour market transitions are affected by international outsourcing. In order to do so, we estimate … nonparticipation. Outsourcing is found to have no significant impact on overall job stability in the manufacturing sector, but it is … associated with increased job stability in the service sector. Furthermore, the effect of outsourcing varies strongly across …

This paper provides a literature review on the labor market outcome of international trade and outsourcing trends in …. International trade and outsourcing are examined not to be the determinant force of labour market movements. It tends to add to … Outsourcing-Aktivitäten auf die Arbeitsmärkte entwickelter Länder. Dabei wird dem Einfluss auf Beschäftigung, Löhne und …

Considering the sector bias of International Outsourcing within a 2x2 framework, four different scenarios appear. Each … superiority of a wage vs. an outsourcing-effect, general equilibrium effects of two scenarios are assumed to be ambiguous … in all four scenarios appear, supporting the sector bias of International Outsourcing. -- International Outsourcing …

less likely to outsource or offshore parts of their production processes if their outsourcing and offshoring potential is …This paper analyses the link between offshoring in German plants and the offshoring potential of their employees. We … use information on the offshoring potential of jobs from representative task data and merge it with linked employer …

international outsourcing affects the individual risk of leaving the occupation. Moreover, a rich data set on tasks performed in … occupations is used to better characterize the sources of worker vulnerability. While international service outsourcing is … associated with an increase in overall stability, the impact of international material outsourcing is slightly negative. These …

Despite the public concern regarding the destructive employment effect of offshore outsourcing, empirical studies of U … of offshore outsourcing. I construct a partial equilibrium model of outsourcing with heterogeneous firms. Heterogeneity … in productivities generates different firm-level responses to outsourcing: the most productive firms outsource, the least …

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 … outsourcing across countries. We discuss some possible reasons for these differences based on labor market institutions …

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 …

We show that, even with flexible domestic wages, international outsourcing may worsen the welfare of the home country … and reduce the profits of all firms. If wages are rigid, outsourcing is welfare-improving if and only if the sum of the … subsidy may improve welfare. We also extend the model to a two-period framework. Delaying outsourcing can be gainful because …