of competitive pressure: relocation of assembly operations and offshoring of automotive parts production. The knowledge … foreign direct investment in Central Europe may have helped the relatively favourable employment and earnings record of the … production. Employment and wages diverged considerably within the German automobile industry. Relative to skilled workers, the …

export-driven Germany, or the industrial producer China and the offshoring of services towards India. …

negative causal impact on employment in offshoring firms. The effect is positive and large for productivity, and weak evidence … 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 …

-year panel, we find positive effects of switching to internet procurement and offshoring inputs and we show that the effect … is stronger for services offshored than for materials offshoring. …

We look at the effect of domestic redistribution policy on offshoring in an asymmetric two country model of … by the share of offshoring firms in the economy. The intuition for this result is straightforward. The progressive income … therefore affect the domestic economy not only directly but also via changes in the amount of offshoring. This has important …