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 …

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 …

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 …

International Outsourcing effects on labor markets are mostly analyzed within flexible wage settings. Using a modern … analyze microeconomic German panel data, results show that International Outsourcing significantly increases low skilled … International Outsourcing but inflexible labor market institutions instead should be blamed for harming low skilled labor …

As regards labor market effects of International Outsourcing, empirical studies have difficulties in confirming … outsourcing indices and applying a panel data estimation of the effects on the within industries' wage gap in Germany, theory and …