When materials offshoring is measured by estimating imported intermediate inputs, a common assumption used is that an … the 3-digit I-O industry level, there is a correlation of 0.68 between the offshoring shares made with and without the …

We use firm-level data on U.S. multinationals to show how offshoring affects domestic employment within and across … in employment at the U.S. parent firm, with smaller effects at the industry and regional levels. In contrast, offshoring … firms. We introduce a new instrument for offshoring: Bilateral Tax Treaties, which reduce the cost of offshore activities …

U.S. manufacturing employment. Our findings suggest that offshoring by multinationals was a key driver of the observed …We provide new facts about the role of multinationals in the decline in U.S. manufacturing employment between 1993 … lower employment growth than a narrow control group and accounted for 41% of the aggregate manufacturing employment decline …