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 …

outsourcing activities, the increased flow of direct foreign investment and its heterogeneous regional distribution, the increased …

influence the demand for outsourcing. We show that outsourcing becomes more beneficial to the firm when technology is changing … expensive than outsourcing. The model therefore provides an explanation for the recent increases in outsourcing that have taken … model, namely, that all other things equal, the demand for outsourcing increases with the probability of technological …

employment of skilled labor and changes in the unemployment rate. Furthermore, we show that international outsourcing has played …

between labor of different skills (tasks) on the one hand, and technology as well as outsourcing on the other. Our findings …. Outsourcing often correlates negatively with the demand for labor performing explicit and problem-solving tasks. It is mainly … uncorrelated or positively correlated with the demand for labor performing interactive tasks. The outsourcing-related results …

evidence that suggests that the increase in non-routine cognitive workplaces is linked to the growth in outsourcing of …

We study the timing of new technology adoption in markets with input outsourcing, and thus with vertical relations. We … find that technology adoption can take place earlier when firms engage in input outsourcing than when they produce the …