This book has both empirical and theoretical goals. The primary empirical goal is to examine
the evolution of industrial relations in Western Europe from the end of the 1970s up to the …

Based on micro data of 118,300 firms without firm-size thresholds covering all manufacturing
industries in Japan, this paper investigates the foreign outsourcing, distinguished explicitly …

We examine empirically the effect of international outsourcing on labour demand at the level
of the individual plant. We do so by estimating a dynamic model of plant-level labour …

The article examines the evolution of migrant low-wage employment in the context of
structural changes in the German labour market. By drawing on data from the Socio …

Economists have recently recognised services offshoring as an important influence on
domestic labour market outcomes. Services are of particular interest since their significance …

It is often argued in the popular debate on globalization that increasing fragmentation of
production will lead to reductions in wages for low-skilled workers in developed countries …

La revisión de la literatura empírica del offshoring o fragmentación internacional de la
producción pone de manifiesto su creciente difusión en la industria española, muy …

The debate about globalization has shifted recently to a new frontier. Firms in rich countries
are outsourcing white-collar work to India, China, and Eastern Europe, raising fears that this …

Die Arbeitswelt befindet sich derzeit in einem massiven Wandel. Organisationen reagieren
darauf oft mit der Einführung neuer Formen von Arbeit–Beschäftigungsverhältnisse …

The wages and employment of individuals in the lower part of the overall earnings
distribution are concerns of all developed and developing countries. One popular position is …