While most offshoring literature focus on the effects on relative wages, other implications do not receive the necessary attention. This paper investigates effects on the industries’ skill ratio. It sum-marizes the empirical literature, discusses theoretical findings, and provides first...

Both theoretical and applied research have benne devoting much attention to the fact that large and growing shares of international trade floes among industrialized countries consist of intermediate goods. The new configuration of the productive structure underlying such phenomenon has been...