The impact of offshoring on domestic jobs is more complicated than it first appears. In the standard narrative …, offshoring production is thought to harm domestic workers by providing cheap alternative sources of labor. However, while … offshoring may directly displace domestic workers, the resulting foreign market access and lower production costs allow domestic …

computing technologies. This paper surveys the evidence on the effects of technical change on skills, wages and employment by … level product innovations appear to raise employment growth, but there is no clear evidence of a robust effect (either …

to workers’ incomes and employment, while firms that import intermediate production stages (“offshoring”) display bigger … employment responses to small changes in workers’ wages, and are more likely to shut down home factories. But offshoring also … helps firms weather economic shocks. Offshoring firms are more likely to survive and provide greater employment stability to …

international trade. Offshoring-the cross-border trade in intermediate goods and services which facilitate country …