-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled labor in the presence of outsourcing? A higher degree of tax progression by …

I study the effects of service offshoring on white-collar employment, using highly disaggregated occupational data for … service offshoring is skill-biased, because it raises employment among high-skilled occupations and lowers employment among … medium- and low-skilled ones. Within each skill group, service offshoring penalizes tradeable occupations and tends to …

affect the volume of offshoring between U.S. companies and their affiliates. The suggested argument is stronger for the …

In oligopolistic industries, increased cost saving opportunities via offshoring have a moderating effect on trade … offshoring, and it is only at that level that further economic integration will lead to both wage moderation and offshoring … activities. Therefore, our analysis suggests that rather than provoking a downsizing of the welfare state, offshoring defines an …