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 …

The recent increase in R&D offshoring have raised fears that knowledge and competitiveness in advanced countries may be … which R&D offshoring is associated with productivity dynamics of European regions. We find that offshoring regions have … large and positive correlation emerge between the extent of R&D offshoring and the home region productivity growth …

In this paper, in order to study the impact offshoring on sectoral and economywide rates of unemployment, we construct … offshoring. This result can be understood to arise from the productivity enhancing (cost reducing) effect of offshoring. If the … search cost is identical in the two sectors, or is higher in the sector which experiences offshoring, the economywide rate of …

2000 models of 184 car brands headquartered in 25 countries. While offshoring in the car industry has risen from 2000 to … 2013, the top five offshoring brands account for the majority of car assembly relocated to low wage countries. We show that …

Theories of offshoring model how firms divide production stages across borders. Empirical work on the phenomenon has … developing countries ― reveal that most offshoring industries are relatively intensive in the employment of very low-wage labor … industries tend to be less likely to hire workers in occupations that are intensive in routine tasks. Offshoring thus appears to …

The various channels through which a reduction in the cost of offshoring can improve wages in a developed country are … by now well understood. But does a similar reduction in the offshoring cost also benefit workers in the world's factories … in developing countries? Using a parsimonious two-country model of offshoring, we find very nuanced results. These …

A simple model of offshoring, which depicts offshoring as 'shadow migration,' permits parsimonious derivation of … necessary and sufficient conditions for the effects on ages, prices, production and trade. We show that offshoring requires … modification of the four classic international trade theorems. We also show that offshoring is an independent source of comparative …

that of activities that remain in the domestic location. In theory, offshoring is optimal only for the more productive … among heterogeneous firms if it entails a fixed cost. In a large sample of Italian firms, offshoring - especially of … arguably relevant firm-level characteristics. We also document that offshoring decreases the share of unskilled employment in …

The lively media debate on the employment consequences of offshoring is not yet backed by an adequate empirical … evidence around its actual effects. This paper relies on sectoral data to assess the impact of material offshoring on … offshoring. The econometric analysis provides evidence that the direct effects of offshoring on employment are not significant …