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 …

and regulation and productivity measurement of the German electricity industry in particular. The methodological approach … empirical productivity analyses based on a growth accounting fiamework. A major share of the data that are utilized for this … productivity analyses. …