regions, the offshore outsourcing concerns mainly production activities, and to a lesser extent R&D. The study also analyses …This study analyses the extent of outsourcing in Finnish manufacturing. We find that in the early 2000s, 60% of …

This paper examines the effects that purchased services and imported intermediate materials have on the labour demand … between labour and non-labour inputs. Similarly, the increasing use of both imported materials and purchased services is …

, discusses research and development trends, demand, production, subcontracting, competition, etc.; investigates the impact of …

This study analyses the extent and motives of outsourcing and offshoring. We find that in early 2000, 10, 000 23, 000 …&D jobs have been relocated from Finland. Outsourcing is most commonly observed in ser-vice-related functions, but also … manufacturing and R&D tasks have been outsourced. The main drivers of production outsourcings have been cost savings, capacity and …

Municipalities may have various motives for decisions on the mode of their task execution. Empirical studies – based on … contracting out decisions. Therefore, we held interviews with Dutch municipal managers about the motives for the actual mode of … service provision. This study provided the opportunity to investigate the relevance of motives on contracting out, to explore …

We use data on motives of international outsourcing and location choices from a recent survey of European companies to …. The quantitative impact on job losses remains modest in the case of cost-saving motives. The simple divide between low and …

Municipalities may have various motives for decisions on the mode of their task execution. Empirical studies – based on … contracting out decisions. Therefore, we held interviews with Dutch municipal managers about the motives for the actual mode of … service provision. This study provided the opportunity to investigate the relevance of motives on contracting out, to explore …

We use data on motives of international outsourcing and location choices from a recent survey of European companies to …. The quantitative impact on job losses remains modest in the case of cost-saving motives. The simple divide between low and …