chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … similar frameworks. In the first framework the profitability of offshoring is based on increasing returns to scale on the task …-level, whereas the second framework relies on differences in relative factor endowments of the two countries involved in offshoring …

countries to additionally include informal employment (chapter 3) as well as the relation between foreign direct investment …, trade, and informal employment as illustrated by the maquiladora industry in Mexico (chapter 4), the interaction between …

, employment and exports. The econometric approach addresses the problems of unobserved firm heterogeneity as well as the potential … show positive effects on sales, labor productivity and employment; the effects on exports are less clear. …

den Staaten der EU-15, in der Schweiz und in den USA. Erfaßt werden dabei alle drei Säulen typischer …