between outsourcing potential and international tradability and systematically uses a large set of potential determinants of … organizational and spatial relocation derived from the existing literature on offshoring. Applying principal component analysis, we … are able to compute two indicators explaining both the outsourcing potential and the international tradability of an …

Germany exhibits a strong reduction in domestic manufacturing production depth (bazaar effect). I argue that this … equilibrium where input sub-bundles may be traded (offshoring). The model allows for several goods and two fragments, produced …. I also explore trade policy implications and compare offshoring to migration …

-- with labor market frictions to study the impact of offshoring on intrafirm, intrasectoral, and intersectoral reallocation … of jobs, and on the economy-wide unemployment rate. A reduction in the offshoring cost affects intrafirm and … competition effect. The key parameters determining the impact of offshoring on reallocation of jobs at various margins as well as …

workforce. The effects off-shoring on wages and job composition are also studied. That of low-skill and high-skill tasks, not … ; hollowing out ; skill biased technical change ; terms of trade ; off-shoring …

shares of high-skill as well as low-skill workers in the total workforce. The effects of off-shoring on wages and job … composition are also studied. Off-shoring of low-skill and high-skill tasks, not middle-skill tasks, is shown to contribute … technical change ; terms of trade ; off-shoring …

We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" - China and Eastern Europe … sector in Germany. This is almost exclusively driven by the rise of Eastern Europe, not by China. We also conduct an analysis …

Outsourcing is an efficient way to reduce a company's costs and is often necessary to remain competitive. However, the … practice has had its critics. This paper summarizes the outsourcing debate that has been going on in the United States and …