Considerable attention has been focused on how the 'offshoring' practices of multinational firm's impact domestic … employment within home countries. Although few definitive conclusions have emerged to date, empirical work often distinguishes … to measuring employment effects at parent firms, thereby ignoring impacts on the broader labour market within the home …

, which in turn, has had substantial stratification effects on employment and income opportunities of different occupations …

likely economic and employment impacts are explored. These agreements not only liberalise trade, but also open service …

correlated with Europe, the USA is one of the vulnerable economies that could be affected by the overbearing financial problems …

hypothesis (SAH). To our knowledge, this is the first examination of the SAH for the USA. The results of our empirical analysis … horizontal marginal intra-industry trade, we find that the latter has a stronger effect on employment of production workers than … does the former. The findings suggest that for total industry-level employment and for industry-level production worker …

paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in US manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000, using … instrumental variables estimation to address the potential endogeneity of offshoring. It finds that service offshoring has a …. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the magnitude is smaller accounting for approximately …

This paper investigates the wage and employment effects of offshoring. I use firm-level data and two events in Mexico … as a natural experiment to identify the effects of a fall in the marginal cost of offshoring to Mexico. I find that … domestic wages actually rise at US firms likely to take advantage of this new offshoring opportunity. At the same time …

Existing models of offshoring are not equipped to explain how global production sharing affects the volatility of … economic activity. This paper develops a trade model that can account for why offshoring industries in low wage countries such … as Mexico experience fluctuations in employment that are twice as large as in high wage countries such as the United …

positive net effect on native employment while offshoring has no effect on it. We also find some evidence that offshoring has …How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it … possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation …