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 …

incorporating production offshoring into a North-South model of directed technical change. We �find that if offshoring is present … change in the North. This fi�nding highlights the different implications of offshoring and conventional trade on innovation …. Furthermore, we �find that an increase in the Southern stock of capital reduces offshoring and also leads to skill …

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

First moves towards a real understanding of the offshoring phenomenon date back to very recent times, with employment …-2005. Moreover, I consider all industries within the economy and take account of both materials and services offshoring. The results … presented here suggest that we can expect a positive effect of services offshoring on employment, and a positive effect of …

Offshoring has lately received wide attention. Its potential effects, mainly to be materialized in employment and … beliefs, our data reveal that offshoring is not exclusive of large developed economies. Further, we highlight the continuing … prominence of the manufacturing over the services sector, and observe that while services offshoring is on the rise, it still …

This paper estimates the possible effects of offshoring on Japanese employment. Both the positive and negative effects … are here considered as a result of both the offshoring of production (or materials) and services. My main finding is that … the net amount of jobs lost to offshoring during the past two and a half decades is negligible, as it was the role of …