to shift employment abroad. Yet the evidence, beyond anecdotes, is slim. This paper reports stylized facts on the … the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) in Washington, D.C., we report correlations between U.S. multinational employment at …-income countries there is a positive correlation between jobs at home and abroad, suggesting that foreign employment of U …

First moves towards a real understanding of the offshoring phenomenon date back to very recent times, with employment … presented here suggest that we can expect a positive effect of services offshoring on employment, and a positive effect of … analyses of the employment and productivity effects at the aggregate level of the industry, covering the years 1980 …

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 …

with data for Argentina and the U.S.A. circa 1970. …

external shocks (e.g. manufacturing offshoring, oil shocks) impact the labor market along sectoral lines, i.e. they impact … product and output markets; consequently, they affect employment in various occupations. Some shocks, however, like services … offshoring, affect horizontals or occupations. We find that an occupation spread across many industrial sectors is less volatile …

We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a task- assignment model … with skill heterogeneity. Exact conditions for the following insights are derived. The distributional effect of offshoring … (high-) low-skill-intensive tasks is similar to (unskilled-) skill-biased technology changes, while offshoring medium …

We investigate production offshoring – the relocation of production activities to locations abroad – of European firms …. The analysis employs data from the European Manufacturing Survey (EMS). Offshoring activity is declining across most … of a longer trend which already started in 2003. Despite the general decrease in offshoring, far-shoring to Asia in …

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 …