IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/wfo/wquart/y2001i3p120-132.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Outsourcing, Competitiveness and Employment. Effects mapped with a Sector Model of Austrian Manufacturing

Author

Listed:
  • Kurt Kratena

    (WIFO)

  • Michael Wüger

    (WIFO)

Abstract

With the Austrian economy becoming more integrated into Eastern Central Europe, manufacturing steps are being shifted to Eastern Europe (outsourcing or "fragmentation"), following the intermediate step of lower costs payable for imported materials and services. Outsourcing impacts directly and negatively on domestic employment, yet simultaneously raises both output and employment indirectly as a consequence of lower costs at the macroeconomic level. This indirect effect is produced by cost savings, which in turn change output prices and thus improve competitiveness (on all markets).

Suggested Citation

  • Kurt Kratena & Michael Wüger, 2001. "Outsourcing, Competitiveness and Employment. Effects mapped with a Sector Model of Austrian Manufacturing," Austrian Economic Quarterly, WIFO, vol. 6(3), pages 120-132, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:wfo:wquart:y:2001:i:3:p:120-132
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.wifo.ac.at/wwa/pubid/20509
    File Function: abstract
    Download Restriction: Payment required
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wfo:wquart:y:2001:i:3:p:120-132. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Florian Mayr (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/wifooat.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.