A major question in the globalization debate is whether outsourcing and offshoring activities are beneficial to the … suggests that the effect of offshoring manufacturing and services on total factor productivity (TFP) is positive and larger …

-house offshoring to China is a major determinant of Dutch import growth from China. Dutch firms tend to offshore production in …

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 …