in parts and components. Our results bring evidence that bilateral trade related to offshoring activities across Europe …Research for evidence on offshoring activities and its driving forces has been done by analyzing gross trade flows … related to offshoring using gravity equations augmented by ad hoc measures of supply-side country differences. We develop a …

Recent empirical studies have been searching for evidence on and driving forces for offshoring. Typically, this search … incomplete specialisation with complete specialisation as a natural limiting case. Results support evidence for offshoring … activities across Europe, driven by supply-side country differences compatible with models of incomplete specialisation and trade …

repre-sentatives in Germany and Central Eastern Europe, this Discussion Paper examines the opportu-nities and strategies of … can be observed in Europe? And which factors determine these impacts? The data and research results discussed in this …

suppliers. In this study I provide stylized facts on offshoring in Europe between 1995 and 2008 taking into account this …The economic effects of offshoring have been subject to extensive empirical analysis in the past, but many studies have … not accurately distinguished between offshoring, domestic outsourcing, and the substitution of domestic by foreign …

of the enterprise group. Third, most of R&D offshoring from Europe is directed to high-income European countries, not so … to low-cost countries in Europe, China, or India. Fourth, R&D jobs do have been lost from offshoring; however, the …This paper explores offshoring of firms’ research and development functions. Our analysis employs a previously untapped …

Neue Konzepte der Logistik- und Transportorganisation verändern die räumliche und funktionale Arbeitsteilung in Europa … division of labor in Europe. In the process of developing the European common market transnational and expanded logistics …

This paper analyzes a North-South trade model with costly offshoring and equilibrium unemployment due to union wage … setting. Reductions in the amount of resources required in the offshoring process usually decrease employment, though the … opposite can happen at a low initial level of offshoring activity. If additional offshoring leads to a fall in the scale of …