-level data about job tasks, we analyze which tasks are complements. Such intrapersonal task complementarities limit the division … significantly lower when task complementarities are accounted for. We also advance the current literature on offshorability by … specializing in a job task, workers perform bundles of tasks. Bundling occurs when tasks are complements. Using individual …

introducing an indicator at the task-level, rather than the occupation-level. -- Tasks ; complementarities ; offshoring …-level data about job tasks, we analyze which tasks are complements. Such intrapersonal task complementarities limit the division … significantly lower when task complementarities are accounted for. We also advance the current literature on offshorability by …

equilibrium where input sub-bundles may be traded (offshoring). The model allows for several goods and two fragments, produced …. I also explore trade policy implications and compare offshoring to migration …

We offer a theoretical explanation and empirical evidence for a positive link between increased offshoring and … mainly focuses on the retraining of workers after a direct job displacement through offshoring. To establish a link between … offshoring and on-the-job training, we introduce an individual skill upgrading margin into the small-open-economy version of the …

We offer a theoretical explanation and empirical evidence for a positive link between increased offshoring and … mainly focuses on the retraining of workers after a direct job displacement through offshoring. To establish a link between … offshoring and on-the-job training, we introduce an individual skill upgrading margin into a variant of the Grossman and Rossi …

This paper provides new evidence on how offshoring shifts relative labor demand for tasks at the industry level. A …, guides estimation. Cost shares of tasks are linked to offshoring in a panel estimation using German data for 1998-2007. It is … shown that offshoring shifts home country relative labor demand towards more complex tasks with higher relocation cost. This …

This study addresses the impact of offshorability (a job characteristic indicating how easily a job can be offshored …) on employment changes and worker mobility in Germany. A composite measure of offshorability for German data is used which … offshorability. Results from a discrete-time hazard rate model confirm that the risk of exit from a job is smaller in more …

In this paper, we explore the role of trade in differentiated final goods as well offshoring of tasks for inequality … is assumed to be a variable input composed of tradable tasks, while managerial labor is a fixed, non-tradable input. We … restricted to differentiated final goods with a world with trade in both final goods and production tasks. …

Faktorausstattung zweier Länder basiert. Das zweite Kapitel liefert eine Theorie zu Offshoring unter Imitationsrisiko. Diese Theorie … chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … similar frameworks. In the first framework the profitability of offshoring is based on increasing returns to scale on the task …