This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different … labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries …

what is often argued, therefore, we find no evidence for a negative causal effect of offshoring on employment in Germany or …). It turns out that, compared to non-offshoring firms, firms that relocated activities were larger and more productive, and … relocate, and this points to self-selection of "better" firms into offshoring. This finding is in line with results from recent …

We study workers' idiosyncratic earnings risk over the life-cycle using a German administrative data set. Positive and … incomplete markets model. Moreover, age-varying risk implies a linear increase in consumption inequality late in working life …

We analyze the impact of international outsourcing on income, if the domestic labor market is imperfect. We distinguish … and profit share. We find that in the first case outsourcing will reduce (increase) workers' income, if the labor union …'s bargaining power is sufficiently high (low) and outsourcing will increase workers' income in the second case. For the amount of …

offshoring (integration) and sourcing strategies and (4) location of firms and labor markets. Second, we overview existing …

decreases. Next we allow for offshoring of unskilled jobs in our model, and we find that, as a result, it becomes more likely … that the fair-wage constraint binds. Offshoring of unskilled jobs always leads to an increase in skilled wage, a decrease … adverse impact of offshoring on unskilled unemployment. The unskilled wage can increase or decrease as a result of offshoring …

shocks have a positive effect on wages. Exports increase wages for all occupational categories while offshoring has … elasticity of wages with respect to exports and offshoring is higher than in firms with no collective bargaining. Wage gains …We estimate the impact of international trade on wages using data for French manufacturing firms. We instrument firm …

We develop a model which shows that wages, prices and real income should grow faster in countries with low increase in … the case of Germany, which has displayed a significantly lower increase in its labour force than its trade partners … increase in their prices and in German wages.This mechanism is magnified by the low price elasticity of the demand for German …

This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry … negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit from services offshoring in terms of higher real wages. Hence, offshoring has … information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals …