their home country only. Our study confirms former results of the literature that R&D offshoring is used by leading R …

This paper analyses how international outsourcing has affected the relative demand for low skilled workers in Germany … disentangle international outsourcing and trade in final goods more accurately. The main finding is that during the 1990s … international outsourcing had a significant negative impact on the relative demand for low-skilled workers, explaining between 19 …

integration of commodity markets (i.e., free trade) and international integration of factor markets (i.e., offshoring). In a two …-country, two-good, two-factor model we show that free trade and offshoring have opposite effects on rich-country workers. Free … trade hurts rich-country workers, while reducing the volatility of their wages; by contrast, offshoring benefits them, while …

focuses on tradable tasks and use it to study how falling costs of offshoring affect factor prices in the source country. We …

This paper examines the relationship between the share of employment potentially affected by offshoring and economic … by offshoring and exports of business services, and a negative association with imports of business services. However …