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 …

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 …

"offshoring", is an important element of such a (global in scale) process of structural change having important implications for … of the labour force. This paper assesses the employment impact of offshoring, in five European countries (Germany, Spain … offshoring industries and types of professional groups affected by offshoring. Results provide a rather heterogeneous picture of …

offshoring on the labor market can substantially deviate from standard neoclassical conclusions when search frictions hinder … exploiting offshoring. It implies that automation (offshoring) may reduce (raise) employment by lengthening (shortening …

This paper estimates conditional demand models to examine the impact of offshoring, technological change, and migration … occupationspecific effects: offshoring seems to have beneficial employment effects for native craft workers in this set of economies … industries) and managers/professionals in manufacturing. Furthermore, there are important distinctions whether offshoring occurs …

results are robust to controlling for service trade liberalization and offshoring. …

This paper explores offshoring of firms’ research and development functions. Our analysis employs a previously untapped …&D offshoring is small. Second, a large majority of R&D is offshored within the enterprise group, in contrast to offshoring outside … of the enterprise group. Third, most of R&D offshoring from Europe is directed to high-income European countries, not so …

of tasks. Two main channels of offshoring tasks are taken into account: offshore outsourcing and in-house offshoring. The … offshoring channel. Offshore outsourcing of R&D has a positive effect on the anticipated domestic employment, whereas in …-house offshoring of R&D has a negative effect. Specific for the manufacturing sector is that offshore outsourcing of production also …