role that human capital plays in this relationship using a rich, worker-level, longitudinal data set from Germany spanning …

-level trade flows with firm-specific instrumental variables based on world demand and supply shocks. Both export and offshoring … shocks have a positive effect on wages. Exports increase wages for all occupational categories while offshoring has … elasticity of wages with respect to exports and offshoring is higher than in firms with no collective bargaining. Wage gains …

Services offshoring is on the rise. Due to recent innovations in communication technologies, many services that used to … over the past decades, indicating under-exploitation of the potential for services offshoring. To understand this … establishes that the level of services offshoring is lower in industries with greater offshoring potentials, as captured by their …

The impact of offshoring on domestic jobs is more complicated than it first appears. In the standard narrative …, offshoring production is thought to harm domestic workers by providing cheap alternative sources of labor. However, while … offshoring may directly displace domestic workers, the resulting foreign market access and lower production costs allow domestic …

This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on labour market inequalities between skill groups based on German … industry level data from 1995 to 2007. Our main findings are the following: First, offshoring is on average biased in favour of … sector, material offshoring, and offshoring to Central and Eastern Europe. Second, we find that the labour market adjusts to …

In diesem Papier evaluieren wir die Auswirkung von technologischem Fortschritt sowie Offshoring auf die Karriere von …

measures of outsourcing and examines their determinants and consequences for employment. There are some commonalities in the … correlates of the two measures of outsourcing, as well as agreement on the absence of adverse employment effects across all … between outsourcing and plant closings is predominantly negative, albeit poorly determined. -- Outsourcing ; organizational …

The paper analyzes how international outsourcing affected individual employment security. The analysis is carried out … at the micro-level, combining monthly spell data from household panel data and industry-level outsourcing measures. By … international outsourcing significantly lowers individual employment security. Interestingly, the effect does, however, not differ …

outsourcing indices and applying a panel data estimation of the effects on the within industries' wage gap in Germany, theory and …As regards labor market effects of International Outsourcing, empirical studies have difficulties in confirming …

outsourcing indices and applying a panel data estimation of the effects on the within industries' wage gap in Germany, theory and …As regards labor market effects of International Outsourcing, empirical studies have difficulties in confirming …