engage in offshoring. Reshoring does occur but seldom for corrective reasons. China remains the most attractive site for …

engage in offshoring; reshoring does occur but seldom for corrective reasons. (3) North America may be at the cusp of a …

This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different … and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the industry level, distinguishing outsourcing by broad region …. Estimating the same specification on different data show that there are some interesting differences in the effect of outsourcing …

explanation is at odds with the sequence of observed facts. We propose and model an alternative scenario in which offshoring …

In this paper we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage, employment and … displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring, organizing our discussion around the three key elements … of offshoring: that it involves intermediate inputs for production (vs. final goods for consumption); that it involves …

The offshoring of production by multinational firms has expanded dramatically in recent decades, increasing these firms … probability. We also show that a firm's probability of offshoring increases with the share of its employees who are immigrants …

pollution haven hypothesis whereby offshoring is central to the mechanism - US manufacturers begin to source from abroad and …

factor. Offshoring jobs abroad may change the composition of domestic firms and employment and thus reduce union density … workers and firms in Denmark (1999-2017), which allows us to measure the exogenous threat of offshoring at the firm-level and … the unionization decisions of individual workers. The findings show that the threat of offshoring reduces unionization …

to contracting firms. For this end we develop a new method for identifying outsourcing of food, cleaning, security and … growth of domestic outsourcing in Germany since the early 1990s. Event-study analyses show that wages in outsourced jobs fall … associated with outsourcing stem from a loss of firm-specific rents, suggesting that labor cost savings are an important reason …