The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the occupational task profile using rich … individual-level panel data. Our main results suggest that, when only considering within-industry changes in offshoring, we … identify a moderate wage reduction due to offshoring for low-skilled workers, though wage effects in relation to the task …

This paper investigates the wage and employment effects of offshoring. I use firm-level data and two events in Mexico … as a natural experiment to identify the effects of a fall in the marginal cost of offshoring to Mexico. I find that … domestic wages actually rise at US firms likely to take advantage of this new offshoring opportunity. At the same time …