The impact of offshoring on domestic jobs is more complicated than it first appears. In the standard narrative …, offshoring production is thought to harm domestic workers by providing cheap alternative sources of labor. However, while … offshoring may directly displace domestic workers, the resulting foreign market access and lower production costs allow domestic …

to workers’ incomes and employment, while firms that import intermediate production stages (“offshoring”) display bigger … employment responses to small changes in workers’ wages, and are more likely to shut down home factories. But offshoring also … helps firms weather economic shocks. Offshoring firms are more likely to survive and provide greater employment stability to …

international trade. Offshoring-the cross-border trade in intermediate goods and services which facilitate country …

The structure of employment in the Federal Republic of Germany has been diversifying increasingly since the 1980s. The … traditional 'regular employment relationship' has lost ground to other employment forms such as part-time, fixed-term or agency … work, though it is still by far the most common type of employment relationship. In Berlin, however, more substantial …