I provide new empirical evidence on the direct and indirect impact of services offshoring on local employment and wages …, using a unique dataset on firms in the UK for the period 2000-2015. Exploiting variation in firms' services offshoring … across labour markets, I show positive aggregate local labour employment and wage elasticity to services offshoring …

We explore the relationship between proximity of buyers and sellers and the organizational form of outsourcing …. Outsourcing can be "contractual" in which suppliers undertake specific investments or involve "generic" market transactions …

This paper studies the effects of service offshoring on the level and skill composition of domestic employment, using a … rich data set of Italian firms and propensity score matching techniques. The results show that service offshoring has no …