We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular …. Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), linked with industry-level data on offshoring of materials and … significant reduction in wages as materials offshoring increases, while permanent workers' wages are unaffected or even tend to …

We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular …. Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), linked with industry-level data on offshoring of materials and … significant reduction in wages as materials offshoring increases, while permanent workers' wages are unaffected or even tend to …

explanation is at odds with the sequence of observed facts. We propose and model an alternative scenario in which offshoring … German economy since 1995: 1) Germany offshores more intensively than other advanced countries; 2) The increase in … Germany would have occurred without the Hartz reforms, but later and less intensively. We finally discuss the possible …

This paper analyses the effect of offshoring (i.e., the relocation of activities previously performed in-house to … International Sourcing Survey (ISS) 2017 for Germany, linked to other firm level data such as business register and ITGS data. First …, we find that offshoring is a rare event: In the sample of firms with 50 or more persons employed, only about 3% of …