Does Outsourcing to Central and Eastern Europe really threaten manual workers' jobs in Germany?

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Vertical specialization across the world: a relative measure (2009, background): “Finally, Strauss-Kahn (2003) finds an increase of the share of imported inputs in production in France from 1977 to 1993, Geishecker (2006) identifies a significant growth of international outsourcing during the nineties in German manufacturing, while Geishecker et al. (2008) provide evidence of an…”
Offshoring, Tasks, and the Skill-Wage Pattern (2013, methodology): “First, due to the detailed information on educational attainment in our microdata, we can differentiate between skill groups in a much more precise way than the commonly used manual/non-manual worker dichotomy (e.g., Feenstra and Hanson 2001; Geishecker, 2006).”
Offshoring and firm performance: self-selection, effects on performance, or both? (2009, result): “By construction all these studies cannot uncover any causal effect of outsourcing on enterprises, and the same holds for studies by Geishecker (2006) and Schöller (2007a, 2007b) based on industry level data.”
The impact of international outsourcing on individual employment security: A micro-level analysis (2008, unknown): “…that the skill-biased effects of technological change and international outsourcing that have been found for Germany in aggregated industrylevel studies (e.g.,Falk and Koebel, 2002; Geishecker, 2006) are indirect and related to the lower probability of low-skilled workers to reenter employment.”