outsourcing grew at rates experienced during 1996-2005 in business, professional and technical services i.e., in segments where … outsourcing (1) would switch 4-digit occupations 2 percent less often, (2) would spend 0.1 percent less time unemployed, and (3 …We examine the impact on U.S. labor markets of offshore outsourcing in services to China and India. We also consider …

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

We link industry-level data on trade and offshoring with individual-level worker data from the Current Population …

A simple model of offshoring, which depicts offshoring as 'shadow migration,' permits straightforward derivation of … necessary and sufficient conditions for the effects on wages, prices, production and trade. We show that offshoring requires … modification of the four classic international trade theorems, so econometricians who ignore offshoring might reject the Heckscher …

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

We identify "first generation" statistics to measure offshoring as the share of imported intermediate inputs in costs … demand and relative wages due to offshoring. A limitation of these statistics is that they cannot be used to measure the … impact on real wages, and for that purpose, we need price-based measures of offshoring. More recently, "second generation …

We estimate how offshoring and exporting affect wages by skill type. Our data match the population of Danish workers to … countries. Our data reveal new stylized facts about offshoring activities at the firm level, and allow us to both condition our … identification on within-job-spell changes and construct instruments for offshoring and exporting that are time varying and …

Ricardian model of offshoring. A unique final good is produced by combining a skilled and an unskilled product, each produced …-scarce East. Profit maximization determines both the extent of offshoring and technological progress. Offshoring induces skill … relevant case, starting from low levels, an increase in offshoring opportunities triggers a transition with falling real wages …

that credit unions choose: one is a partial form of outsourcing while the other is more complete. This allows us to …

Outsourced workers experience large wage declines, yet domestic outsourcing may raise aggregate productivity. To study … wage premia. Second, outsourcing raises output at the firm level. Third, contractors endogenously locate at the bottom of … the job ladder, implying that outsourced workers receive lower wages. Using firm-level instruments for outsourcing and …