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 …

This paper assesses the impact of international outsourcing/offshoring practices on the process of wage equalization … outsourcing/offshoring indices based on input-output data (World Input Output Database, April 2012 release). Two-way relations … place, but international outsourcing plays a negligible role in wage equalization. Moreover, even though regression results …

This paper extends the literature on the implications of offshoring for labour markets by investigating its effect on … international trade in manufacturing inputs. Being particularly interested in the wage effects of offshoring to low wage countries … (LWC), we employ precise LWC classifications (varying across industries and time) to decompose overall offshoring by source …

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 …