Offshoring – the importing of intermediate materials and services – has expanded rapidly in most industrialized … research has relied entirely on a proxy-based measure offshoring, using what the OECD refers to as the “proportionality …-based measure for both services and materials offshoring. To assess the significance of using different measures, we substitute them …

been for decades. What are the labor market consequences of the recent surge in services offshoring? While offshoring has … traditionally been found to affect only less-skilled workers in industrialized countries, this study finds that services offshoring … also has negative consequences for high-skilled workers. Focusing on the case of Germany, Deborah Winkler shows how …

This paper provides new evidence on how offshoring shifts relative labor demand for tasks at the industry level. A … novel theoretical mechanism, based on sorting of heterogeneous workers into occupations with task dependent offshoring cost …, guides estimation. Cost shares of tasks are linked to offshoring in a panel estimation using German data for 1998-2007. It is …

We analyze the relationship between offshoring and the onshore workforce composition in German multinational … enterprises (MNEs), using plant data that allow us to discern tasks, occupations, and workforce skills. Offshoring is associated … not alter the direction of the relationship. We find offshoring to predict between 10 and 15 percent of observed changes …