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 …

. This chapter precisely investigates the effects of offshoring and FDI on German establishment employment. It compares … different modes and measures of offshoring and FDI and employs two different micro-data sets in a unified methodical framework … Internationalisierungsstrategien von Unternehmen unterscheiden. Dafür wird hier der Effekt vom sog. Offshoring und von ausländischen …