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 …

-specific inputs in production. In an equilibrium model of the U.S. labor market, we examine the responses of employment and wages to …

links on wages between workers from Western, Central–Eastern, and Southern Europe employed in manufacturing and non … pressure on wages in Europe. This effect mainly concerns workers from Western Europe employed in manufacturing and is driven by …, but the pressure of GVC imports on wages in Western Europe is not economically negligible, in particular when inputs are …