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 …

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 …

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 …

Services offshoring is on the rise. Due to recent innovations in communication technologies, many services that used to … over the past decades, indicating under-exploitation of the potential for services offshoring. To understand this … establishes that the level of services offshoring is lower in industries with greater offshoring potentials, as captured by their …

This paper analyses the effect of offshoring (i.e., the relocation of activities previously performed in-house to … International Sourcing Survey (ISS) 2017 for Germany, linked to other firm level data such as business register and ITGS data. First …, we find that offshoring is a rare event: In the sample of firms with 50 or more persons employed, only about 3% of …

The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be … suitability of a task for offshoring and the associated skill level. Accordingly, wage effects of offshoring can be very … on offshoring. Our main results suggest that in partial equilibrium, wage effects of offshoring are fairly modest but far …

interaction between coverage and outsourcing for these skill groups. -- Collective Bargaining ; International Outsourcing ; Union …In this paper, we provide first empirical evidence on the effect of outsourcing on union wages using linked employer … industries with high outsourcing intensities. The finding applies to both firm- and sector-level agreements. Hence, outsourcing …