labour across firms affects economy-wide unemployment. Offshoring reduces unemployment when it is confined to high …We set up a general equilibrium model, in which offshoring to a low-wage country can lead to job polarisation in the … pay wages that are positively linked to their profits by a rent-sharing mechanism. Offshoring involves fixed and task …

have boosted German competitiveness, resulting in higher exports, higher production and lower unemployment. This … explanation is at odds with the sequence of observed facts. We propose and model an alternative scenario in which offshoring … explains the gains in competitiveness but increases unemployment and inequality, and the subsequent labour market reforms lower …

In this paper we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage, employment and … displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring, organizing our discussion around the three key elements … of offshoring: that it involves intermediate inputs for production (vs. final goods for consumption); that it involves …

on the job finding rate but we find mixed effects in terms of post-unemployment wages. …In diesem Papier evaluieren wir die Auswirkung von technologischem Fortschritt sowie Offshoring auf die Karriere von … Löhnen und stabileren Arbeitsverhältnissen führen kann. Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen während der Arbeitslosigkeit sind im …