This paper provides new evidence on how offshoring shifts relative labor demand for tasks at the industry level. A …, guides estimation. Cost shares of tasks are linked to offshoring in a panel estimation using German data for 1998-2007. It is … shown that offshoring shifts home country relative labor demand towards more complex tasks with higher relocation cost. This …

capital or one of a continuum of labor skills. We characterize conditions for interior automation, whereby tasks of …We develop an assignment model of automation. Each of a continuum of tasks of variable complexity is assigned to either … advantage in the most complex tasks relative to capital, and because the wages of the least skilled workers are sufficiently low …

This paper uses data from the Cedefop European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey, a new international dataset of adult …‐qualified employees. Little evidence is found in favour of equilibrium theories of skills matching and compensating wage differentials …

is particularly exposed to offshoring, possibly due to the different nature of tasks there. Fourth, medium …