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 …

. 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 … chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but …

the wages for skilled and unskilled workers, leading to involuntary unemployment of unskilled workers in equilibrium …, the effects of a globalization shock - modelled as the entry of newly industrializing countries into the trading world …

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 …

into offshoring. Given a shock that lowers offshoring costs, the theory predicts that domestic wages rise at firms that …Offshoring of US jobs is controversial. Critics fear that offshoring will lead to lost jobs and lower domestic wages at … offshore relative to domestic wages at firms that do not. The theory also predicts that domestic employment could rise or fall …