between outsourcing potential and international tradability and systematically uses a large set of potential determinants of … organizational and spatial relocation derived from the existing literature on offshoring. Applying principal component analysis, we … are able to compute two indicators explaining both the outsourcing potential and the international tradability of an …

Qualification and Working Conditions in Germany and employ a large set of potential determinants of offshoring and outsourcing … measure both the offshoring potentials (cross-country geographical relocation) and the outsourcing potentials (organisational …

workers at home and abroad. In an extension to our baseline model, we illustrate that offshoring production from the high …

that the fractions of final-good producers that pursue either vertical integration, offshoring, or exporting are all …. At the same time, one observes firms that shift away from either vertical integration, offshoring, or exporting. Further …

We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and the East - China and Eastern Europe - in … sector in Germany. This is almost exclusively driven by the rise of Eastern Europe, not by China. We also conduct an analysis …