services offshoring increased sectoral labour productivity, but reduced German manufacturing employment. The overall results …Economists have recently recognised services offshoring as an important influence on domestic labour market outcomes … trade has further accelerated the volume of services trade. Our econometric estimations focus on services offshoring by …

This work offers new insights into the determinants of service offshoring across countries and across service … offshoring costs for all services, while the effects of other characteristics depend on the coordination requirements of the … effects of a membership in NAFTA, and a common colonial past on service offshoring patterns depend on the task content of the …

The paper builds an argument that international trade can be one explanation behind polarization of employment in the … workforce. The effects off-shoring on wages and job composition are also studied. That of low-skill and high-skill tasks, not … ; hollowing out ; skill biased technical change ; terms of trade ; off-shoring …

important factor from the 1990s onwards. -- wage inequality ; polarization ; occupational tasks ; offshoring ; RIF-regressions …