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 …

reducing the generosity of unemployment benefits decreases wages, fosters employment and augments competitiveness as well as …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …

In oligopolistic industries that are unionised and may be affected by offshoring, falling offshoring costs have a …' domestic outside options. Only if the latter become sufficiently attractive will redistribution induce some offshoring, and it … is only at that level that further economic integration will lead to both wage moderation and offshoring activities …

determinants of service offshoring along the extensive and intensive margins. In particular, we evaluate how internal frictions in … offshoring and from its lower dependence on external finance. Furthermore, and in line with our argument, we find that a decline …

This work offers new insights into the determinants of service offshoring across countries and across service … offshoring costs for all services, while the effects of other characteristics depend on the coordination requirements of the … effects of a membership in NAFTA, and a common colonial past on service offshoring patterns depend on the task content of the …