This paper provides new evidence on how offshoring shifts relative labor demand for tasks at the industry level. A … novel theoretical mechanism, based on sorting of heterogeneous workers into occupations with task dependent offshoring cost …, guides estimation. Cost shares of tasks are linked to offshoring in a panel estimation using German data for 1998-2007. It is …

We analyze the effects of offshoring of intermediate input production on labor demand in Sweden, distinguishing between … offshoring …

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 …

theory-based labor demand regressions and and an econometric framework based on the generalized method of moments (GMM). As a … in many specification. Further, theory and anecdotal evidence suggest that unskilled workers are acted worse than highly …

theoretical trade models and their ability to explain the differential impact of off-shoring on skill premiums (i.e. skilled …-unskilled wage dispersion) in the recipient developing countries. In light of the increasing trend of off-shoring activities, it is … dispersion in these economies. The varied impact of off-shoring activities onto the wage dispersion in the south as supported by …