This paper explores the effects of outsourcing on employee well-being through the use of the Finnish linked employer …-employee data. The direct negative effect of outsourcing is attributable to greater job destruction and worker outflow. In terms of … perceived well-being, the winners in international outsourcing are those who are capable of performing interactive tasks (i …

offshoring and international trade. …

Morocco has made offshoring the number one economic development priority within its “Emergence” program. The government …

concerns about the future of U.S. jobs and workers' incomes. However, the current extent of service offshoring is very modest …. Service offshoring is still only a minor part of the international economic competition that the U.S. faces. Service … offshoring appears to have been relatively intense for IT occupations, but the employment and wage trends in those occupations …

foreign firms’ decision to export much of their local production. At the same time, the offshoring process remains more or …

We examine the employment effects of international outsourcing by using firm-level data from the Finnish manufacturing … sector. A major advantage of our data is that outsourcing is defined based on firms’ actual use of intermediate inputs from … foreign trade statistics. The estimates show that intensive outsourcing (more than two times the 2-digit industry median) does …

How do offshoring and immigration affect the employment of native workers? What kinds of jobs suffer, or benefit, most … looked at the effects of offshoring and immigration separately, we argue that one can gain useful insights by jointly …. Third, we use the model to draw systematic predictions about the effects of immigration and offshoring on native workers and …