This paper provides new evidence on how offshoring shifts relative labor demand for tasks at the industry level. A … novel theoretical mechanism, based on sorting of heterogeneous workers into occupations with task dependent offshoring cost …, guides estimation. Cost shares of tasks are linked to offshoring in a panel estimation using German data for 1998-2007. It is …

tends to drive innovation offshoring, high uncertainty about future technology developments results in more innovation … offshoring only for firms with low internal technological capabilities. Firms with high technological capabilities instead are … less likely to offshore innovation when uncertainty is high. We argue that these differences in offshoring behaviour …

This paper analyzes the impact increased offshoring has on labor income risk. It is therefore distinct from a large … offshoring trends at the sector level. Importantly, we distinguish between transitory and permanent shocks to individual income …-insurable. It thus has a particular relevance for individual welfare. Our findings suggest that offshoring tends to lower permanent …

In this paper, I analyse the relationship between offshoring and ICT at the firm level differentiating between … manufacturing and services. Using firm-level data from the manufacturing and service sector in Germany and a broad range of ICT … measures, overall, the results reveal a positive relationship between offshoring and ICT. Thus, they support the argument that …

, Germany maintains an extensive bad weather allowance system. Since the mid 1990s, these regulations have been subject to …

Germany. Our results give some support to the job matching model: individuals with a high risk of being bad matches exhibit …