.e. production fragmentation. The increased importance of fragmentation in world trade has created an interest among trade economists … international fragmentation of production process between Austria and its 29 trading partners, is examined and various country …-specific factors suggested by fragmentation literature are tested using newly developed panel econometrics techniques and more recent …

fragmentation; and measures designed to overcome them, namely interconnection and consolidation of bargaining power. The first paper …

Recent empirical studies have been searching for evidence on and driving forces for offshoring. Frequently, this has … competing with the role of multilateral trade resistance. Our results support evidence for offshoring activities across Europe …

offshoring on R&D and innovation activities of the firm in the home country. The analysis is based on a dataset of more than 3000 … firms which have offshored production activities in a previous period to a control group of non-offshoring firms. The … analysis finds no negative effect of production offshoring on innovation and technological capabilities of firms in the home …

(products) of the economy and thus also includes employment effects of service offshoring. Third, we also calculate the …

In this paper, I estimate the impact of service offshoring on the real wages of U.S. workers by controlling for workers …’ skill levels and the offshoring susceptibility of different tasks. Matching individual-level wage data with input … results from a Mincerian wage regression indicate that within skill groups, the impact of service offshoring on real wages …