The study proves evidence of five new empirical facts on the impact of services offshoring on local labour markets …. First, services offshoring increases average employment and wages within local labour markets, much more so in the … manufacturing industry than in the services one. Second, positive effects are both on firms directly offshoring services and on non-offshoring …

We present a model of offshoring of tasks to a developing nation, which is characterized by a minimum wage formal … informal sector. An improvement in the productivity in performing offshored tasks in the developing country raises offshoring … improvements in the informal sector expand both offshoring and outsourcing, and the developed nation wage must rise. When the …

offshoring on the labor market can substantially deviate from standard neoclassical conclusions when search frictions hinder … exploiting offshoring. It implies that automation (offshoring) may reduce (raise) employment by lengthening (shortening …

This paper investigates the effects of offshoring on individual job satisfaction and perceived risk of job loss. The … workers in industries with higher offshoring intensity report lower job satisfaction and/or are more prone to be unsecure at … offshoring is associated with lower job satisfaction. The results are also indicative of some heterogeneity in the offshoring …

offshoring towards lower-income countries such as Mexico has been proposed as a potential driver of this decline. Our analysis … provides a unique and new approach to address the question of whether trade and offshoring have impacted the occupational …

This is one of few books in the market dealing with offshoring of professional services, the dynamic phenomenon of high … relevance in the global economy. The unique feature of the book is merging economic and business approaches to offshoring of … professional services, so called offshoring of white-collar services. The work contains results of analysis of determinants and …