implications of offshore outsourcing. In the first two essays, I use structural models to analyze the size of employment changes … aggregate employment effect is negative. The numerical analysis, however, shows that the negativity of the aggregate effect is … caused by the cleansing effect, and that the employment responses of outsourcers are ambiguous. In the second essay, firms …

untersucht empirisch die Auswirkungen von Offshoring auf Arbeiterflüsse in Deutschland. Während Offshoring die Stabilität von … Dienstleistungssektor. Die Effekte von Offshoring hängen ferner stark vom Alter und der Bildung des einzelnen Arbeitnehmers ab. … through local subsidiaries. The essay demonstrates that the adverse employment effects of a unilateral wage floor increase …

employment and skills shortages that can be addressed by offshore outsourcing. However, a large-scale survey of domesticIT …

choice for employers.A threshold is identified in terms of extent of local labor employment at which the viability oflocal … labor employment collapses. We show that even before this threshold is met, the laborforce benefits of the location vanish …

impact of foreign offshoring of intermediate inputs on the growing wage gap in U.S. manufacturing industries is larger than …

This dissertation consists of three essays in Macroeconomics. The first essay assesses the impact of offshoring on … increased offshoring are found to be substantial even after taking into account losses in specific human capital for workers in …

and off-shoring often supported by culture change programmes. These changes have resulted in work intensification, have …

, Offshoring, and Offshore-Outsourcing. Following this conceptualization, primary data from 830 information technology and product … that project organization types that span country boundaries (Offshoring and Offshore-Outsourcing) outperform Collocated … (Offshoring and Offshore-Outsourcing) compared to all types of domestic project organizations (Collocated Insourcing, Distributed …

?s full employment and aging population. Sixteen years of unbroken expansion of the Australian economy have created skills …