Modeling the offshoring of white-collar services : from comparative advantage to the new theories of trade and foreign … direct investment / James R. Markusen -- Service offshoring : threats and opportunities / Daniel Trefler -- Tradable services … : understanding the scope and impact of services offshoring / J. Bradford Jensen, Lori G. Kletzer -- Trends in employment at U …

paper is motivated by recent evidence that trade has greatly expanded on the extensive margin (aka fragmentation, offshoring …

The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be … suitability of a task for offshoring and the associated skill level. Accordingly, wage effects of offshoring can be very … on offshoring. Our main results suggest that in partial equilibrium, wage effects of offshoring are fairly modest but far …

-way offshoring/trade-in-tasks. …

This paper examines the channels through which offshoring affects employment in a representative sample of German … establishments, using a difference-in-differences matching approach. Offshoring establishments are identified by an increase in the … share of foreign to total inputs. We find that an average offshoring establishment has higher employment, higher …

We propose an endogenous growth model with offshoring to investigate its effects on product innovation and growth in … the country of origin. Offshoring is associated with reduced feedback from offshored plants to domestic labs as well as … static decision to relocate plants but not R&D. Hence, offshoring may be chosen by firms when it damages the growth rate of …