chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … similar frameworks. In the first framework the profitability of offshoring is based on increasing returns to scale on the task …-level, whereas the second framework relies on differences in relative factor endowments of the two countries involved in offshoring …

international outsourcing affects the individual risk of leaving the occupation. Moreover, a rich data set on tasks performed in … occupations is used to better characterize the sources of worker vulnerability. While international service outsourcing is … associated with an increase in overall stability, the impact of international material outsourcing is slightly negative. These …

Services offshoring is on the rise. Due to recent innovations in communication technologies, many services that used to … over the past decades, indicating under-exploitation of the potential for services offshoring. To understand this … establishes that the level of services offshoring is lower in industries with greater offshoring potentials, as captured by their …

engage in offshoring. Reshoring does occur but seldom for corrective reasons. China remains the most attractive site for …

This paper analyses the effect of offshoring (i.e., the relocation of activities previously performed in-house to … International Sourcing Survey (ISS) 2017 for Germany, linked to other firm level data such as business register and ITGS data. First …, we find that offshoring is a rare event: In the sample of firms with 50 or more persons employed, only about 3% of …

The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be … suitability of a task for offshoring and the associated skill level. Accordingly, wage effects of offshoring can be very … on offshoring. Our main results suggest that in partial equilibrium, wage effects of offshoring are fairly modest but far …

Outsourcing is widely associated with accompanied job losses in the outsourcing firm, at least in the short run …. However, the medium and long run effects of outsourcing on employment growth might still be positive. This paper particularly … focuses on IT outsourcing and its medium-term effects on employment growth. Therefore, a three year time period from 2003 to …

investigate how workers' labour market transitions are affected by international outsourcing. In order to do so, we estimate … nonemployment rises with international outsourcing for medium-skilled and older workers … nonparticipation. Outsourcing is found to have no significant impact on overall job stability in the manufacturing sector, but it is …