The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be … suitability of a task for offshoring and the associated skill level. Accordingly, wage effects of offshoring can be very … on offshoring. Our main results suggest that in partial equilibrium, wage effects of offshoring are fairly modest but far …

We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular …. Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), linked with industry-level data on offshoring of materials and … significant reduction in wages as materials offshoring increases, while permanent workers' wages are unaffected or even tend to …

labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries …

This paper analyses how increased offshoring impacts on labor income risk. It is therefore distinct from a large number … variability of incomes. It provides an assessment that directly connects labor income risk and offshoring trends in a panel … suggest that offshoring tends to lower permanent income risk. This effect is particularly strong for offshoring to low …

The affordability of housing has become a major topic of discussion in Germany among both social scientists and the …

music education programs are becoming increasingly popular among policy makers in Germany and other developed countries …

Nationally representative panel survey data for Germany and Australia are used to investigate the impact of working …

entitlements and sheds light on determinants of this behavior. Against the background that educational mobility in Germany is low … former socialist East Germany choose to take up student aid than similar West German students. Finally, in line with …

-wing preferences and attitudes towards immigration. Using longitudinal data from Germany, our intergenerational estimates suggest that …