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 …

This paper provides new evidence on how off-shoring 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 off-shoring cost …, guides estimation. Cost shares of tasks are linked to off-shoring in a panel estimation using German data for 1998-2007. It …

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

impact of immigration and different measures of offshoring on the labour demand and demand elasticities of native workers in … important and occupation-specific direct and indirect effects of immigration and offshoring. Both offshoring - particularly … services offshoring - and immigration have negative direct employment effects on all occupations, but native clerks and manual …

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 …