international outsourcing. It is the first detailed study to address the effects of outsourcing on labour markets in the UK. In a … recent paper, Feenstra and Hanson (1996) estimate the effect of international outsourcing on wage inequality in the US. This … paper extends the FH approach by using more detailed definitions of outsourcing and skill. The analysis applies to UK …

This paper explores the impact of offshoring, or contracting out of business activities to foreign providers, on firm … productivity, using Japanese firm-level data for the period 1994-2000. We find that offshoring has generally a positive effect on … productivity growth. This effect is robust to controlling for the possible endogeneity of offshoring with respect to unobserved …