This work explores the effects of cross border relocation of production on the skill composition of Italian manufacturing firms. Its aim is to assess if the firms' strategy to offshore production activities towards cheap labor countries determines a bias in the relative employment of skilled...

This paper provides empirical evidence on the relationship between patterns of integration in global value chains (GVCs), the ‘quality’ of such integration in terms of technological capabilities and the structure of employment in European countries and sectors. We study employment shares in...