-level Trade in Value Added (TiVA) indicators of offshoring and domestic outsourcing. The results suggest that employment in all … explaining employment levels of routine and non-routine occupations. The analysis encompasses 28 OECD countries over the period … types of occupations positively relate to innovation. With respect to offshoring patterns, a positive correlation is …

The paper builds an argument that international trade can be an explanation behind polarization of employment in the … shares of high-skill as well as low-skill workers in the total workforce. The effects of off-shoring on wages and job … composition are also studied. Off-shoring of low-skill and high-skill tasks, not middle-skill tasks, is shown to contribute …

The impact of offshoring on domestic jobs is more complicated than it first appears. In the standard narrative …, offshoring production is thought to harm domestic workers by providing cheap alternative sources of labor. However, while … offshoring may directly displace domestic workers, the resulting foreign market access and lower production costs allow domestic …