This paper provides precise figures on the incidence and wage penalties of mismatching in Germany. We use the BIBB … characteristics. We also examine wage penalties for mismatching in Germany, considering a large number of controls for workers and, in … results indicate that large shares of over- or under-educated workers in Germany have skills that correspond to the skill …

This paper documents novel facts on within-occupation task and skill changes over the past two decades in Germany. In a …

chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … similar frameworks. In the first framework the profitability of offshoring is based on increasing returns to scale on the task …-level, whereas the second framework relies on differences in relative factor endowments of the two countries involved in offshoring …

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 …

-level Trade in Value Added (TiVA) indicators of offshoring and domestic outsourcing. The results suggest that employment in all … types of occupations positively relate to innovation. With respect to offshoring patterns, a positive correlation is … observed between the offshoring of inputs and domestic outsourcing with more routine-intensive jobs. Taken together, the …

several interesting patterns. First, import content in exports has steadily increased from 15.9% in 2003-04 to 27.2% in 2013 …

This paper explores the effects of offshoring, technology and Chinese import competition on labor market polarization … we also find some tentative evidence that Chinese import competition contributed as well. In other private industries … outside of manufacturing, technological change and offshoring are the most relevant forces affecting within …