offshoring involves job destruction, especially when the destination is a low-wage country. In such circumstances, staying … negative. Our evidence also shows that offshoring to high-wage countries stimulates the vertical mobility of employees in …

We analyze the effect of low-skill workers offshoring on the welfare of the economy. In the context of a matching model … offshoring, namely, an increase of the unemployment benefits and the flexibilization of the labor market. Our results suggest … unemployment benefits to compensate for the negative welfare effects of offshoring, it would only take a small reduction in the …

explanation is at odds with the sequence of observed facts. We propose and model an alternative scenario in which offshoring …

We study the relationship between offshoring and job stability in Italy in the period 1995–2001 by using an … stability. Service offshoring and material purchases from developed countries foster job-to-job transitions within manufacturing … material offshoring to low income countries which drives blue collar workers out of manufacturing. Therefore, policy …

The subject of offshoring and productivity has not yet received the attention it deserves. Here I propose a simple …-series perspective. This framework is then used to assess the impact of offshoring on skill upgrading and the labor share. For both … should be interpreted with caution yet clearly suggest that offshoring can improve labor productivity in the Semiconductors …

immigration of individuals. The second is that the emigration of jobs from Europe to other regions of the world through offshoring … from immigration and offshoring on a firmer empirical foundation; and second, to explore changes in the European social … increased global competition from emerging market economies. Both immigration and offshoring confront European policy makers …

In this paper, in order to study the impact of offshoring on sectoral and economywide rates of unemployment, we … offshoring. This result can be understood to arise from the productivity enhancing (cost reducing) effect of offshoring. If the … search cost is identical in the two sectors, or even if the search cost is higher in the sector which experiences offshoring …