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 …

Besides material offshoring, economists have started to analyze the impact of service offshoring on domestic employment … definition of service offshoring also taking into account the different motives behind offshoring. The theoretical part gives a … brief literature overview of the predicted effects of offshoring on domestic employment. The empirical part first compares …

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. …

insourcing and outsourcing, but once the world market reaches a threshold size, outsourcing prevails. We also derive a number of …