The growth in offshoring and its economic effects have been subject to extensive empirical analysis. Yet, many studies do not accurately distinguish between offshoring, domestic outsourcing, and a substitution of domestic suppliers by foreign...

The economic effects of offshoring have been subject to extensive empirical analysis in the past, but many studies have not accurately distinguished between offshoring, domestic outsourcing, and the substitution of domestic by foreign suppliers. In...

This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on labour market inequalities between skill groups based on German industry level data from 1995 to 2007. Our main findings are the following: First, offshoring is on average biased in favour of...