This paper examines the relationship between outsourcing and various aspects of employee well-being by devoting special … employees' job satisfaction is reduced. However, the relationship between outsourcing and employee well-being is not entirely …

We evaluate the effects of international outsourcing and labor taxation on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment … in dual labor markets. Outsourcing promotes wage dispersion between the high-skilled and low-skilled workers. Higher … domestic low-skilled wage tax, higher payroll tax and lower wage tax exemption increase optimal outsourcing. Outsourcing will …

abroad, and where outsourcing is substitutable for domestic low-ability labor. Our results show that the incentives for the … unemployment also constitutes an incentive to implement a tax on outsourcing. Without a direct instrument for taxing outsourcing …, the government may reduce the amount of resources spent on outsourcing by increased provision of the public input good …

measures of outsourcing and examines their determinants and consequences for employment. There are some commonalities in the … correlates of the two measures of outsourcing, as well as agreement on the absence of adverse employment effects across all … between outsourcing and plant closings is predominantly negative, albeit poorly determined. …

This paper studies in the presence of flexible outsourcing the effects of outsourcing costs, productivity of … outsourcing, wage tax and tax exemption in an imperfectly competitive labour markets when labour unions and firms negotiate wages … demand is higher than in the case of strategic outsourcing and a decreasing function of the outsourcing cost, an increasing …

This paper investigates empirically the link between international outsourcing and the skill structure of labour demand … in the United Kingdom. It is the first detailed study of this issue for the UK. Outsourcing is calculated using import … factor demands, our main results show that international outsourcing has had a strong negative impact on the demand for …

Our paper investigates the link between 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 … fragmentation has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the …