offshoring on the labor market can substantially deviate from standard neoclassical conclusions when search frictions hinder … exploiting offshoring. It implies that automation (offshoring) may reduce (raise) employment by lengthening (shortening …

This paper assesses the impact of international outsourcing/offshoring practices on the process of wage equalization … outsourcing/offshoring indices based on input-output data (World Input Output Database, April 2012 release). Two-way relations … between trade and wages are addressed through the use of a gravity-based sector-level instrument. We find no evidence …

. The second chapter provides a theory of offshoring under imitation risk that explains optimal dynamic adjustments of firms … intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I … Faktorausstattung zweier Länder basiert. Das zweite Kapitel liefert eine Theorie zu Offshoring unter Imitationsrisiko. Diese Theorie …

impact of technical change on relative wages and unemployment in a world in which one country has flexible and the other …

impact of technical change on relative wages and unemployment in a world in which one country has flexible and the other …

closed economy from an endogenous growth model that endogenizes invention, innovation and diffusion of knowledge that is … various growth experiences of the U.S. over the last 40 years. Innovation is modeled as diffusing skill-biased knowledge … percentage of high-skilled workers in the innovative sector resulting in what I call the specialization in innovation effect …

We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a task-assignment model … with skill heterogeneity. Exact conditions for the following insights are derived. The distributional effect of offshoring … (high-) low-skill-intensive tasks is similar to (unskilled-) skill-biased technology changes, while offshoring medium …

We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a taskassignment model … with skill heterogeneity. Exact conditions for the following insights are derived. The distributional effect of offshoring … (high-) low-skill-intensive tasks is similar to (unskilled-) skill-biased technology changes, while offshoring medium …

, respectively. Offshoring to these origins has opposing effects on German wages with respect to the relative task complexity of jobs …: While offshoring to the West puts pressure on the wages of complex jobs and increases the wages of simple jobs, offshoring …This paper analyzes the labor market effects of offshoring in a high-wage home country and how these effects crucially …