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 …

imports but German sector-level outcomes exhibit some covariation consistent with faster task offshoring in sectors exposed to …

faster task offshoring in sectors exposed to lower labour-market tightness. We discuss policy implications of these findings. …

chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … similar frameworks. In the first framework the profitability of offshoring is based on increasing returns to scale on the task …-level, whereas the second framework relies on differences in relative factor endowments of the two countries involved in offshoring …

less likely to outsource or offshore parts of their production processes if their outsourcing and offshoring potential is …This paper analyses the link between offshoring in German plants and the offshoring potential of their employees. We … use information on the offshoring potential of jobs from representative task data and merge it with linked employer …

We analyze the relationship between offshoring and the onshore workforce composition in German multinational … enterprises (MNEs), using plant data that allow us to discern tasks, occupations, and workforce skills. Offshoring is associated … the occupational composition. Offshoring to low-income countries—with the exception of Central and Eastern European …

We analyze the relationship between offshoring and the onshore workforce composition in German multinational … enterprises (MNEs), using plant data that allow us to discern tasks, occupations, and workforce skills. Offshoring is associated … not alter the direction of the relationship. We find offshoring to predict between 10 and 15 percent of observed changes …