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title: "Outsourcing and Offshoring – Overview from Finland in the Early 21st Century (in Finnish with English abstract and summary)"
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  - name: "Ali-Yrkkö, Jyrki"
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date_published: "2006-12-11"
series: "Discussion Papers no."
series_number: "1059"
language: "fi"
publisher: "ETLA Economic Research"
pdf_url: "https://www.etla.fi/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/dp1059.pdf"
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identifier: "https://www.etla.fi/julkaisut/id/Discussion-Papers-no.-1059"
---

# Outsourcing and Offshoring – Overview from Finland in the Early 21st Century (in Finnish with English abstract and summary)

**Published:** 2006-12-11  
**Categories:** Publikationer  
**Tags:** Diskussionsämnen  
**URL:** https://www.etla.fi/sv/publikationer/dp1059-en/

This study analyses the extent and motives of outsourcing and offshoring. We find that in early 2000, 10, 000 – 23, 000 jobs were transferred overseas from Finland. Annually this corresponds to approximately 1.0 – 2.5% of normal job losses and creations in the Finnish labour market. The majority of offshored jobs concern manufacturing tasks. Only a tiny number of R&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 flexibility increases. In terms of R&D outsourcing, attempts to acquire knowledge, increase flexibility and reduce costs are dominating motives.

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