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Events // 24.06.2021
presented in this ZEW Research Seminar shows that locally-provided "non tradable" services can be offshored on-site through foreign employees geographical mobility. To shed light on this issue, the author [...] exhaustive administrative data on this continent-wide experiment, the autor shows that on-site offshoring exposes novel firms and workers to foreign competition, and leads mobility and prevailing wage [...] these aggregate mobility-trade effects, both between and within countries. Liberalizing on-site offshoring redistributed economic activity and tax revenue to sending — mostly low-wage — countries, increasing
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Events // 27.06.2019
the analysis of the labor market effects of offshoring. While theory focuses on one-sector or two-sector models, empirical studies exploit variation in offshoring across a large number of industries, typically [...] typically including a linear offshoring term in the analysis. Thereby, these studies implicitly assume a monotonic relationship between offshoring and labor market outcomes and ignore general-equilibrium [...] effects across industries. We analyze the effects of offshoring across a continuum of industries with different shares of offshorable tasks that are linked through labor and capital markets in general
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Events // 08.11.2018
between firms and identify offshoring as an important determinant of these employment changes. To accommodate these findings, we set up a general equilibrium model in which offshoring to a low-wage country [...] mechanism. Offshoring involves fixed and task-specific variable costs, and as a consequence it is chosen only by the most productive firms, and only for those tasks with the lowest variable offshoring costs [...] variable costs increases offshoring at the intensive and at the extensive margin. Well in line with our evidence, this causes domestic employment shifts from the newly offshoring firms in the middle of the