Services offshoring is on the rise. Due to recent innovations in communication technologies, many services that used to … over the past decades, indicating under-exploitation of the potential for services offshoring. To understand this … establishes that the level of services offshoring is lower in industries with greater offshoring potentials, as captured by their …

This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry … information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals … negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit from services offshoring in terms of higher real wages. Hence, offshoring has …

This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry … information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals … negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit from services offshoring in terms of higher real wages. Hence, offshoring has …

Major technological advances have recently spurred a new wave of offshoring in services, which used to be non … question, suggesting that efficiency gains from offshoring may counteract direct job losses, which leaves the predicted net … effect ambiguous. This paper investigates the employment effects of service offshoring in a newly combined and exceptionally …

This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry … information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals … negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit from services offshoring in terms of higher real wages. Hence, offshoring has …

We examine empirically the effect of international outsourcing on labour demand at the level of the individual plant … has witnessed significant offshoring activity . Our results suggest that, in the short run, there are significant … reductions in plant level labour demand, which we attribute to the use of international outsourcing. There appear to be stronger …

two key challenges in service outsourcing: vendor selection and contract efficiency. We show that competitive bidding …