The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be … suitability of a task for offshoring and the associated skill level. Accordingly, wage effects of offshoring can be very … on offshoring. Our main results suggest that in partial equilibrium, wage effects of offshoring are fairly modest but far …

One issue the literature neglects is how outsourcing stimulates trade (imports, exports and foreign direct investment …

outsourcing activities, the increased flow of direct foreign investment and its heterogeneous regional distribution, the increased …

employment of skilled labor and changes in the unemployment rate. Furthermore, we show that international outsourcing has played …

This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry … information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals … negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit from services offshoring in terms of higher real wages. Hence, offshoring has …