Services from information technology to research to finance are now as subject to international trade as goods have been for decades. What are the labor market consequences of the recent surge in services offshoring? While offshoring has traditionally been found to affect only less-skilled...

Das Transatlantische Handels- und Investitionsabkommen zwischen der Europäischen Union und den USA könnte die größte Freihandelszone der Welt schaffen und ein für Deutschland und alle Länder der Weltwirtschaft wichtiger Expansion- und Innovationsimpuls we

The nature of international trade has changed significantly. For centuries, trade concentrated on the exchange of finished goods. It now increasingly involves bits of value that are added at different locations to combine into one final product. Therefore, trade in functions or tasks are of...

This paper aims to find evidence for the positive impact of cluster structures on employment development in Germany. It develops a new way of measuring the co-location of suppliers and buyers of intermediate goods in a region as well as the importance for the employment development in individual...