First moves towards a real understanding of the offshoring phenomenon date back to very recent times, with employment …-2005. Moreover, I consider all industries within the economy and take account of both materials and services offshoring. The results … presented here suggest that we can expect a positive effect of services offshoring on employment, and a positive effect of …

Offshoring has lately received wide attention. Its potential effects, mainly to be materialized in employment and … beliefs, our data reveal that offshoring is not exclusive of large developed economies. Further, we highlight the continuing … prominence of the manufacturing over the services sector, and observe that while services offshoring is on the rise, it still …

This paper estimates the possible effects of offshoring on Japanese employment. Both the positive and negative effects … are here considered as a result of both the offshoring of production (or materials) and services. My main finding is that … the net amount of jobs lost to offshoring during the past two and a half decades is negligible, as it was the role of …