We survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wages, employment and displacement. We start … with the measurement of offshoring, focusing on the use of imported inputs that could have been produced by the importing … firm. We overview key theories related to offshoring and its labor market effects and survey three waves of the literature …

Technological Change theory. While there exists heterogeneity across countries, only very few countries show a decline in employment …

turn likely to have been a response to the acceleration in the supply of skills during the past several decades …

propose a model of occupational choice with endogenous skill investments, where social skills and routine tasks are q …-complements, and women have a comparative advantage in social skills, to explain the observed patterns. Supporting the model mechanisms …

This paper synthesizes the economics literature on skills and human capital, with a particular focus on higher …-order capacities like social and decision-making skills. We review the empirical evidence on returns to human capital from both a micro … two key limitations of human capital theory as currently implemented. First, prior work mostly assumes that human capital …

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 …

skills rather than idiosyncratic attributes unrelated to productivity? If so, why? And what are the aggregate consequences …? Using internationally comparable data on worker skills and job skill requirements of over 120,000 individuals across 28 … countries, we document that workers' skills better match their jobs' skill requirements in higher-income countries. To quantify …

that offshoring will push natives toward jobs that are more intensive in communication-interactive skills and away from …How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it … possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation …