This paper analyzes the labor market effects of offshoring in a high-wage home country and how these effects crucially depend on (1) Job complexity and (2) The characteristics of the destination country. It thereby links several sources: rich administrative data on individuals and plants in the German manufacturing industries, information on a job's task bundle, and the evolution of imported inputs from low- or high-wage destinations, which are represented by Eastern and Western Europe, respectively. Offshoring to these origins has opposing effects on German wages with respect to the relative task complexity of jobs: While offshoring to the West puts pressure on the wages of complex jobs and increases the wages of simple jobs, offshoring to the East entails the opposite effect. The overall effect adds up to a 4.2 percent increase in wages for jobs with high complexity, while low-complexity jobs see a 3.9 percent decrease in wages.

本文分析了高工资母国离岸外包对劳动力市场的影响，以及这些影响如何关键取决于 (1) 工作复杂性和 (2) 目的地国的特征。因此，它链接了几个来源：德国制造业中个人和工厂的丰富管理数据、工作任务包的信息，以及从东欧和西欧代表的低工资或高工资目的地进口投入的演变，分别。就工作的相对任务复杂性而言，向这些来源外包对德国工资产生相反的影响：虽然向西方外包对复杂工作的工资施加压力并增加简单工作的工资，但向东方外包会产生相反的效果。整体效果加起来为4。