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. We … discuss some possible intuitive reasons for why there may be differences in the impact of outsourcing across the three …

We set out to give a brief outline of key studies that look at the benefits/costs of outsourcing production and …, enhances both productivity and profitability. However, the net benefit arising from outsourcing services is less clear-cut. …