We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular …. Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), linked with industry-level data on offshoring of materials and … significant reduction in wages as materials offshoring increases, while permanent workers' wages are unaffected or even tend to …

This paper examines the relationship between outsourcing and various aspects of employee well-being by devoting special … offshoring involves job destruction, especially when the destination is a low-wage country. In such circumstances, staying … employees' job satisfaction is reduced. However, the relationship between outsourcing and employee well-being is not entirely …

We construct a model of offshoring with externalities and firm heterogeneity. Due to the presence of externalities …, temporary shocks like the Y2K problem can have permanent effects, i.e., they can permanently raise the extent of offshoring in … an industry. Also, the initial advantage of a country as a potential host for outsourcing activities can create a lock in …

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 …

offshoring (integration) and sourcing strategies and (4) location of firms and labor markets. Second, we overview existing …

rates of unemployment and the business cycle over the last decade. We develop the theoretical framework that predicts that … the individual perceptions of job insecurity depend on regional unemployment rates and on the within-group variance of … Monitoring Survey. Our results indicate that while higher rates of unemployment make workers feel less job secure, the wage …

High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well … exploiting sector-specific institutional differences in the exposure to economic shocks. Public servants have stricter dismissal … sensitivity of subjective well-being to fluctuations in unemployment rates is much lower in the public sector than in the private …

have boosted German competitiveness, resulting in higher exports, higher production and lower unemployment. This … explanation is at odds with the sequence of observed facts. We propose and model an alternative scenario in which offshoring … explains the gains in competitiveness but increases unemployment and inequality, and the subsequent labour market reforms lower …