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 …

We set up a model of offshoring with heterogeneous producers that captures two empirical regularities of German … offshoring firms. There is selection of larger, more productive firms into offshoring. However, the selection is not sharp, and … offshoring and non-offshoring firms coexist over a wide range of the revenue distribution. An overlap of offshoring and …

Do investments in the Czech Republic lead to employment growth or employment losses in the German firms involved? To … firm-level data with establishment-level data of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), this database is now linked … with the IAB employment data. As the exact dates of the investments in the Czech Republic are known, the employment …

In this paper, we revisit questions about the onshore employment effects of firms that conduct foreign direct …-study design, we show that the domestic employment growth of MNEs decreases relative to that of non-MNEs and that the affected …