between outsourcing potential and international tradability and systematically uses a large set of potential determinants of … organizational and spatial relocation derived from the existing literature on offshoring. Applying principal component analysis, we … are able to compute two indicators explaining both the outsourcing potential and the international tradability of an …

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 …

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 …

We revisit Grossman and Rossi-Hansberg's (2008) famous result, that under certain conditions offshoring of low … Rybczynski-type reallocation of factors to absorb offshoring-induced job displacement is ruled out. We allow for simultaneous … offshoring of both skilled and unskilled labor, and we derive new results on the role of factor-bias in offshoring, identifying …

techies in 2002 saw greater polarization, and grew faster, from 2002 to 2007. Offshoring reduced employment growth. Among blue …