outsourcing grew at rates experienced during 1996-2005 in business, professional and technical services i.e., in segments where … outsourcing (1) would switch 4-digit occupations 2 percent less often, (2) would spend 0.1 percent less time unemployed, and (3 …We examine the impact on U.S. labor markets of offshore outsourcing in services to China and India. We also consider …

reduce the relative prevalence of FDI or foreign outsourcing. The impact on the composition of offshoring depends on whether … supplier locations, and then study the effects of changes in the quality of contractual institutions on the relative prevalence … of these organizational forms. Better contracting institutions in the South raise the prevalence of offshoring, but may …

This paper reviews the political uproar over offshore outsourcing connected with the release of the Economic Report of … offshore outsourcing, and assesses the empirical evidence on the importance of offshore outsourcing in accounting for the weak … offshore outsourcing is unlikely to have accounted for a meaningful part of the job losses in the recent downturn or …