) on employment changes and worker mobility in Germany. A composite measure of offshorability for German data is used which … employment creation is higher in non-offshorable occupations. Furthermore, both hiring and job separation rates decline with … leaving employment to other labour market states is higher if their jobs are more offshorable. …

We discuss the effects of offshoring on the labor market in a matching model with endogenous adjustment of educational … skills. We carry out a comparative statics analysis and show that offshoring leads to a restructuring of the economy through … skill-biased technical change (SBTC) where overall welfare is improved. In a policy exercise we show that, if offshoring …

important factor from the 1990s onwards. -- wage inequality ; polarization ; occupational tasks ; offshoring ; RIF-regressions …

and assesses the relative contribution of these two groupings, through their employment and wages, to the stagnation of … Displaced Workers Survey data shows that in at-risk occupations, low-wage women’s employment declined, leading to an artificial … was offset by the relative growth of high-wage male employment in atrisk occupations and the widening of the gender wage …

We analyse the effects of imports on employment and earnings by distinguishing between import competition in final … products and firms' use of imports in production (offshoring). We use Finnish worker-firm data merged with product-level trade … occupations. An increase in import competition has larger negative effects than an increase in offshoring. Production workers …

countries, we find that offshoring generally lowers employment in manufacturing firms, and seems to increase the percentage of …In South Africa, the manufacturing sector -- important for growth and employment creation -- has shown declining growth …, poor productivity performance, decreased labour demand, and increased imports of intermediate goods (offshoring activities …