important question: what is the role of ICT and foreign outsourcing in the increased demand for skilled workers‘ Using 84 … Canadian manufacturing industries over 1981–96, we find that both ICT and foreign outsourcing are important contributors to the …

The paper analyses the offshore outsourcing of IT services (OOIT), which have become increasingly important for the … US and Europe, incorporating the hidden costs of offshoring - including long-term risks and opportunities - in order to … determine the total cost of offshore outsourcing activities. The debate on the potential future negative employment impacts in …

Micro and macro level impacts of offshore outsourcing are far from clear. Thus there are some well-founded rationales … for and against offshore outsourcing as well as a number of misinformed and ill guided viewpoints. Using institutional … theory as a lens, this paper analyzes the drivers of offshore business process and information technology outsourcing. We …

Qualification and Working Conditions in Germany and employ a large set of potential determinants of offshoring and outsourcing … measure both the offshoring potentials (cross-country geographical relocation) and the outsourcing potentials (organisational …

between outsourcing potential and international tradability and systematically uses a large set of potential determinants of … organizational and spatial relocation derived from the existing literature on offshoring. Applying principal component analysis, we … are able to compute two indicators explaining both the outsourcing potential and the international tradability of an …

The paper answers two questions simultaneously. What is the effect of offshoring on firms' total factor productivity …? What is the effect of offshoring on skill-biased technological change? We estimate a model of firm production that allows … for the effect of offshoring on both total factor productivity and relative skilled labor productivity, and for spillovers …

The offshoring of high‐tech services has greatly increased in recent years, with consequences for firms demand for … skilled employment in firms. This paper specifically analyzes the relationship between R&D offshoring and the demand for R … services firms a 1 percentage point increase in R&D offshoring raises the demand for researchers by about 11%. This suggests …

offshoring on the labor market can substantially deviate from standard neoclassical conclusions when search frictions hinder … exploiting offshoring. It implies that automation (offshoring) may reduce (raise) employment by lengthening (shortening …

This paper estimates conditional demand models to examine the impact of offshoring, technological change, and migration … occupationspecific effects: offshoring seems to have beneficial employment effects for native craft workers in this set of economies … industries) and managers/professionals in manufacturing. Furthermore, there are important distinctions whether offshoring occurs …