This paper examines the impact of offshoring on labour elasticities for a sample of 40 countries over the period 1995 …-2009 using the recently compiled World Input-Output Database (WIOD). Including measures of narrow and broad offshoring, as well … as indicators of manufacturing and services offshoring, in conditional and unconditional labour demand equations we find …

In this paper we examine the link between international outsourcing – or offshoring – and the skill structure of labour … cross-industry dimension and split employment into three skill categories. Our results indicate that while offshoring has …

, while trade in semi-finished products is important for the chemicals industry. As the offshoring decisions are made at … to characteristics of the host and the destination country and the characteristics of the offshoring firms. Section 5 … therefore focuses on the offshoring decisions at the company level it analyses the motives and determinants of company …

, Harmonisation Countries covered European Union Topics Macroeconomic Analysis and Policy The impact of offshoring on the skill … structure of labour demand (by Neil Foster and Robert Stehrer; pp. 10-15) Keywords Offshoring, Labour Demand, Skills Countries …