fixed offshoring costs. In the skill-abundant country, high-productivity firms offshore a larger range of labor … 2007, we provide empirical support for the factor proportions channel through which offshoring to labor-abundant countries …

-- with labor market frictions to study the impact of offshoring on intrafirm, intrasectoral, and intersectoral reallocation … of jobs, and on the economy-wide unemployment rate. A reduction in the offshoring cost affects intrafirm and … competition effect. The key parameters determining the impact of offshoring on reallocation of jobs at various margins as well as …

We study the relation between the off-shoring of intermediates and services and productivity growth in the Italian … manufacturing industries in 1995-2003. Our results indicate that the off-shoring of intermediates within the same industry ("narrow … off-shoring") is beneficial for productivity growth, while the off-shoring of services is not. We also find that the way …

and non-routine content. -- Tasks ; offshoring ; outsourcing ; skills ; wages …The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be … suitability of a task for offshoring and the associated skill level. Accordingly, wage effects of offshoring can be very …

Offshoring is generally believed to be productivity-enhancing and this belief is underpinned by economic theory. This … article contributes to the growing literature that tests empirically whether offshoring does indeed help to improve … productivity. Estimating the impact of materials and business services offshoring on productivity growth with industry-level data …

We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular …. Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), linked with industry-level data on offshoring of materials and … significant reduction in wages as materials offshoring increases, while permanent workers' wages are unaffected or even tend to …

First moves towards a real understanding of offshoring date back to very recent times. In particular for Japan, the … studies conducted so far focus alone on the productivity effects of offshoring at the firm level. Here I carry out the …-2005. Moreover, I consider all industries within the economy and take account of both services and materials offshoring. My results …

We study the relationship between offshoring and job stability in Italy in the period 1995-2001 by using an … stability. Service offshoring and material purchases from developed countries foster job-to-job transitions within manufacturing … material offshoring to low income countries which drives blue collar workers out of manufacturing. Therefore, policy …

We study the relationship between offshoring and the prevalence and intensity of labor market imperfections at the firm …-markdown pricing originating from firms' monopsony power in both countries. Offshoring benefits firms in that imports of final as well … offshoring on wage markdowns arises from an increase in productivity that is only imperfectly passed through into an increase in …