Recent contributions on offshoring often assume that firms can freely split their production process into separate … technologically determined sequence of production steps. In our model, cost savings from offshoring fluctuate along the production … from offshoring even if relocating individual steps would be advantageous in terms of offshoring costs, or they may …

, little is known about the impact of institutional quality on offshoring. This is surprising, given that offshoring has become … between institutional quality and offshoring. The results suggest that weak institutions are negatively related to offshoring … in general and to offshoring of R&D-intensive goods in particular. Furthermore, firms that are able to establish long …

), the 'quality' of such integration in terms of technological capabilities and the structure of employment in European … countries and sectors. We study employment shares in fabrication and headquarter occupations in terms of functional … specialisation and employment upgrading, making two specific contributions. First, we explicitly account for pre-existing asymmetries …