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 …

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 …

in regional employment within a rich vocational education setting in West Germany during 1979 and 2012. Results confirm … occupations has been the greatest, in Germany there is a greater trend towards occupational upgrading and larger growth in …

impact across industries and local labor markets in Germany. We find no evidence that robots cause total job losses, but they … 23 percent of the overall decline of manufacturing employment in Germany over the period 1994-2014, roughly 275,000 jobs … verarbeitenden Gewerbe, sowie die Auswirkungen auf lokale Arbeitsmärkte in Deutschland. Wir finden keine Anhaltspunkte dafür, dass …

Offshoring has gained a significant momentum in recent years. Firm size appears to be the leading factor … differentiating firms that offshore from those that do not. We present a model that blends offshoring, or trade in tasks, with a … firm heterogeneity offers new tools for analyzing the effects of offshoring on the employment dynamics within an individual …

Using a large administrative data set of individual employment histories in Germany, this paper studies how … international outsourcing affects the individual risk of leaving the occupation. Moreover, a rich data set on tasks performed in … occupations is used to better characterize the sources of worker vulnerability. While international service outsourcing is …

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 …

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

At the turn of the millennium three frequently cited potential causes of new challenges for wage policy in Germany are …