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 …

offshoring costs for all services, while the effects of other characteristics depend on the coordination requirements of the … services. These results are robust to the control for unobservable country-level heterogeneity. The quality of legal … across all service industries. -- Offshoring ; Services ; Tasks ; Coordination ; Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood …

We study the implications of services trade for firm innovation. Using a quasi-experimental shift-share design, we find … that access to foreign knowledge-related services improves the innovativeness of domestic firms and complements their …

We provide a novel set of stylized facts on firms engaging in international trade in services, using unique firm …-level data on services exports and imports in the United Kingdom in 2000- 2005. Less than 10% of firms trade in services but they … can be found in all sectors of the UK economy. While the services sector accounts for 80% of total exports and imports …