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 …

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 …

This paper investigates the effects of automation and offshoring on the dynamics of the occupational distribution of … types of workers, ICT capital, trade in final goods and endogenous offshoring. Fed with exogenous measures of ICT …-capital prices and trade costs, the model replicates key features of the data. It matches the observed dynamics of offshoring to …

find that multinational firms in Austria and Germany are outsourcing skill intensive activities to Eastern Europe taking … found for the North American Free Trade Agreement. Skilled workers in Austria and Germany are losing from outsourcing. In … fears are justified for the two neighboring countries of Eastern Enlargement Austria and Germany. We find that Eastern …

major subsegments of the electrical industry is analysed in more detail for the case of West Germany. …

This paper sets up a two-country model of offshoring with monopolistically competitive product and monopsonistically … competitive labour markets. In our model, an incentive for offshoring exists even between symmetric countries, because shifting … labour market power. However, offshoring between symmetric countries has negative welfare effects and therefore calls for …