, fails to find evidence that offshoring contributes to lowering employment. … processes within global value chains. This has been achieved through fragmentation and offshoring. Fostered by the fall in coordination … costs due to information and communication technology developments, offshoring implies that firms increasingly source …

. Buyouts reduce agency problems, which triggers automation, offshoring, and tougher bargaining with labor unions. We show that …

phenomenon is affecting the skill composition of employment. Measuring offshoring using the import-use matrices of input …-output tables, firstly we estimate the impact of offshoring on the general level of employment, and we don’t find any significant … relationship. Then, we examine the relationship between offshoring and employment composition by skills. Our results show that the …

First moves towards a real understanding of the offshoring phenomenon date back to very recent times, with employment … presented here suggest that we can expect a positive effect of services offshoring on employment, and a positive effect of … analyses of the employment and productivity effects at the aggregate level of the industry, covering the years 1980 …

This paper estimates the possible effects of offshoring on Japanese employment. Both the positive and negative effects … are here considered as a result of both the offshoring of production (or materials) and services. My main finding is that … the net amount of jobs lost to offshoring during the past two and a half decades is negligible, as it was the role of …

to shift employment abroad. Yet the evidence, beyond anecdotes, is slim. This paper reports stylized facts on the … the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) in Washington, D.C., we report correlations between U.S. multinational employment at …-income countries there is a positive correlation between jobs at home and abroad, suggesting that foreign employment of U …

How do offshoring and immigration affect the employment of native workers? What kinds of jobs suffer, or benefit, most … offshoring has no effect on native employment in the aggregate, while the effect of immigration on native employment is positive … looked at the effects of offshoring and immigration separately, we argue that one can gain useful insights by jointly …