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Author-Name: Fernando Luengo Escalonilla
Author-Email: fluengoe@ccee.ucm.es
Author-Workplace-Name: Complutense University of Madrid.
Author-Name: Ignacio Álvarez Peralta
Author-Email: nacho.alvarez@icei.ucm.es
Author-Workplace-Name: Complutense University of Madrid.
Title: Impact of international offshoring on the labour market. A reflection on the conceptual and methodological aspects
Abstract: The objective of this paper is to analyse the conceptual and methodological aspects of international offshoring (IO) and its impact on the labour 
	market. This paper presents therefore two necessarily complementary levels. On the one hand, the more general one, which aims to pinpoint the 
	conceptual keys of the offshoring dynamic; on the other hand, we review different instruments and approaches, in order to measure this phenomenon 
	and to evaluate its impact on the labour market. We first ascertain a brief conceptual demarcation of international offshoring. After that, we 
	examine different methodological tools in order to measure international offshoring and the impact of IO’s on the labour market. The implications of 
	IO for the labour market -complex, diverse and not always easy to establish– depend on a series of factors which must be considered simultaneously: 
	the magnitude of the process, its characteristics, the underlying causes and the strategies and responses generated by economic, social and 
	institutional agents. All of these aspects will be addressed –from a conceptual and methodological point of view- in different sections of the 
	present paper.
Classification-JEL: F14, J23, L6.
Keywords: Offshoring; Outsourcing; Relocalization; Labour market.
Journal: Papeles de Europa
Pages: 50-67
Volume: 18
Year: 2009
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