This paper analyses the link between offshoring in German plants and the offshoring potential of their employees. We … use information on the offshoring potential of jobs from representative task data and merge it with linked employer …-employee data, for which information on different modes of offshoring behaviour is available. We empirically identify individual and …

Qualification and Working Conditions in Germany and employ a large set of potential determinants of offshoring and outsourcing … measure both the offshoring potentials (cross-country geographical relocation) and the outsourcing potentials (organisational …

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 focuses on the links between labor market institutions and offshoring, with specific reference to the role … councils deal with three important aspects of offshoring processes: the timeliness of information they receive from the … works councils impeding offshoring, there are elements to suggest that they may influence the way such decisions are taken …

Starting from the diagnosis that Germany has had better economic outcomes than most advanced countries since the mid … due to offshoring and (ii) the labour market reforms have subsequently reduced the offshoring-related unemployment by … inequality already generated by offshoring. In contrast with the traditional explanation based on the Hartz reforms, our model …

what is often argued, therefore, we find no evidence for a negative causal effect of offshoring on employment in Germany or …). It turns out that, compared to non-offshoring firms, firms that relocated activities were larger and more productive, and … relocate, and this points to self-selection of "better" firms into offshoring. This finding is in line with results from recent …

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 …