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 …

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

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 …

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 …

. -- International outsourcing ; individual wages ; labour market institutions …This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different … and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the industry level, distinguishing outsourcing by broad region …

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. -- Job stability ; labour market … nonparticipation. Outsourcing is found to have no significant impact on overall job stability in the manufacturing sector, but it is …

"Nedelyn Magtibay-Ramos, Gemma Estrada, and Jesus Felipe provide an analysis of the business process outsourcing (BPO …

. -- International outsourcing ; individual wages ; labour market institutions …This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different … and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the industry level, distinguishing outsourcing by broad region …

investigate how workers' labour market transitions are affected by international outsourcing. In order to do so, we estimate … transitions are not affected symmetrically by international outsourcing. -- Job stability ; labour market transitions ; worker … out of the labour force. Outsourcing is found to have no significant impact on job stability in the manufacturing sector …