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 …

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 …

-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained chapters which deal with the following topics in empirical international trade and …

This dissertation was prepared as a collection of 4 research articles in the field of international trade with a focus … on gravity modeling and estimation for international trade and migration and on domestic firm-level labor market effects … mobile within established frameworks. This chapter therefore provides a first structurally estimable model of international …