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 …

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 … associated with an increase in overall stability, the impact of international material outsourcing is slightly negative. These …

of international offshoring from the recent patterns of “domestic offshoring”, the relocation of activities across … national border. Investigating the domestic and international offshoring patterns for West German manufacturing industries …. -- International offshoring ; domestic offshoring ; functional fragmentation ; industry life cycle ; Germany ; K density …