negative causal impact on employment in offshoring firms. The effect is positive and large for productivity, and weak evidence … what is often argued, therefore, we find no evidence for a negative causal effect of offshoring on employment in Germany or …). It turns out that, compared to non-offshoring firms, firms that relocated activities were larger and more productive, and …

percentage points for services and 0.48 to 0.64 for materials. -- offshoring ; Japan ; employment ; productivity …First moves towards a real understanding of offshoring date back to very recent times. In particular for Japan, the … studies conducted so far focus alone on the productivity effects of offshoring at the firm level. Here I carry out the …

Offshoring is generally believed to be productivity-enhancing and this belief is underpinned by economic theory. This … article contributes to the growing literature that tests empirically whether offshoring does indeed help to improve … productivity. Estimating the impact of materials and business services offshoring on productivity growth with industry-level data …

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 …

The fear of massive job losses has prompted a fast-growing literature on offshoring and its impact on employment in … services offshoring on total employment for Belgium between 1995 and 2003. -- Offshoring ; imported intermediate inputs … advanced economies. This paper examines the situation for Belgium. It improves the offshoring intensity measure by computing a …

We study the relationship between offshoring and the prevalence and intensity of labor market imperfections at the firm …-markdown pricing originating from firms' monopsony power in both countries. Offshoring benefits firms in that imports of final as well … offshoring on wage markdowns arises from an increase in productivity that is only imperfectly passed through into an increase in …

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of employment and child care payment decisions of single mothers in the … estimate a model that examines the effects of the price of child care and the wage rate on employment decision as well as the … decision to use paid child care among single mothers. The model distinguishes between the full-time and part-time employment …

operate through employment, education, and income. …