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 offshoring on individual job satisfaction and perceived risk of job loss. The … workers in industries with higher offshoring intensity report lower job satisfaction and/or are more prone to be unsecure at … offshoring is associated with lower job satisfaction. The results are also indicative of some heterogeneity in the offshoring …