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 …

realized offshoring as a threat to enforce lower wages. Using a large German household survey, I can show evidence that … increasing potential offshoring lowers wages through high job loss fears. …