We present a global production sharing model that integrates the organizational choices of offshoring into the … determination of relative wages in developing countries. The model shows that offshoring through foreign direct investment … contributes more prominently than arm's length outsourcing to the demand for skill in the South, thereby increasing the relative …

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 …

The offshoring of production by multinational firms has expanded dramatically in recent decades, increasing these firms … probability. We also show that a firm's probability of offshoring increases with the share of its employees who are immigrants …

We study the relationship between offshoring and job stability in Italy in the period 1995-2001 by using an … stability. Service offshoring and material purchases from developed countries foster job-to-job transitions within manufacturing … material offshoring to low income countries which drives blue collar workers out of manufacturing. Therefore, policy …

We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and the East - China and Eastern Europe - in … sector in Germany. We also conduct our analysis at the individual worker level, and find that trade had a stabilizing overall …

role that human capital plays in this relationship using a rich, worker-level, longitudinal data set from Germany spanning …

bargaining in Germany. Based on a simple bargaining model we derive our main hypothesis: In establishments covered by collective …

it explains a substantial part of the increase in offshoring tasks abroad. …

use worker-level data on mass layoffs in Germany between 1980 and 2010 and provide causal evidence that workers who used …