not accounted for by differences in workers' characteristics, occupations, nor for differences in the employers' locations …

This paper exploits a unique offshoring survey to show that firms continue domestic production of the same goods they …. Firms' reactions also motivate a new offshoring measure - produced- good imports - that is readily observed in most firm …

Offshoring—the transfer of an industrial activity abroad—has become a fact of life for business. But it is also … the potential loss of domestic jobs. This groundbreaking report provides new insights into the phenomenon of offshoring …. First, the report defines offshoring in detail, allowing readers to see the many ways that industrial activity—both in …

integration of commodity markets (i.e., free trade) and international integration of factor markets (i.e., offshoring). In a two …-country, two-good, two-factor model we show that free trade and offshoring have opposite effects on rich-country workers. Free … trade hurts rich-country workers, while reducing the volatility of their wages; by contrast, offshoring benefits them, while …

This paper examines the relationship between the share of employment potentially affected by offshoring and economic … statistical association between the share of both "non-clerical" and clerical occupations potentially affected by offshoring and …

tradable tasks and use it to study how falling costs of offshoring affect factor prices in the source country. We identify a …

correspond to an increase in outsourcing by multinationals from the United States and other Northern countries, is to shift …