This paper analyzes the labor market effects of offshoring in a high-wage home country and how these effects crucially …, respectively. Offshoring to these origins has opposing effects on German wages with respect to the relative task complexity of jobs …: While offshoring to the West puts pressure on the wages of complex jobs and increases the wages of simple jobs, offshoring …

Chinese trade, and the growth of vertically specialized trade due to international production fragmentation. The literature in …

This paper assesses the impact of international outsourcing/offshoring practices on the process of wage equalization … outsourcing/offshoring indices based on input-output data (World Input Output Database, April 2012 release). Two-way relations … indicate that offshoring reduces the wage growth of domestic medium- and low-skilled workers, we show that this negative effect …

This paper extends the literature on the implications of offshoring for labour markets by investigating its effect on … international trade in manufacturing inputs. Being particularly interested in the wage effects of offshoring to low wage countries … (LWC), we employ precise LWC classifications (varying across industries and time) to decompose overall offshoring by source …

fragmentation. Whereas the growth in North-South trade has been labeled "horizontal globalisation", fragmentation stands for the … "vertical globalisation". First fragmentation is introduced into a Ricardian model with one factor of production in a small … functions where we introduce one or two components. As a result, it seems to be clear that fragmentation is changing …

We investigate the relation between Net Neutrality regulation and Internet fragmentation. We model a two-sided market … strategically set termination fees to induce fragmentation. This takes place when advertising revenues are potentially large but … identify an important link between termination fees, the online advertising market and Internet fragmentation. We extend the …