states of the EC. Theoretical considerations imply that the increase in the export value should, to a large extent, be due to …

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 …

indebtedness. At the same time we evaluate the impact of convergence on the EU-15 countries also, by endogenising offshoring and … manufacturing to the NMS are not well founded. In contrast, offshoring appears to be a win-win case for both the EU-15 and the NMS …

Offshoring of US jobs is controversial. Critics fear that offshoring will lead to lost jobs and lower domestic wages at … into offshoring. Given a shock that lowers offshoring costs, the theory predicts that domestic wages rise at firms that … crisis in 1994 as exogenous shocks to the marginal cost of offshoring to Mexico, I proceed to test these implications with …

Foreign direct investment (FDI) in advanced business services (ABSs), referred to here as the offshoring of white …

first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading … actor on the world market for manufactured goods. It documents that firms that export to countries inside the euro-zone are … more productive than firms that sell their products in Germany only, but less productive than firms that export to …

The impact of firm level productivity heterogeneity on export market entry has been the subject of theoretical …