Morocco has made offshoring the number one economic development priority within its “Emergence” program. The government …

perceived well-being, the winners in international outsourcing are those who are capable of performing interactive tasks (i …This paper explores the effects of outsourcing on employee well-being through the use of the Finnish linked employer …-employee data. The direct negative effect of outsourcing is attributable to greater job destruction and worker outflow. In terms of …

. Service offshoring is still only a minor part of the international economic competition that the U.S. faces. Service … concerns about the future of U.S. jobs and workers' incomes. However, the current extent of service offshoring is very modest … offshoring appears to have been relatively intense for IT occupations, but the employment and wage trends in those occupations …

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 …

believed they were immune from the initial waves of downsizing and offshoring that affected the manufacturing sector, others at …

We examine the employment effects of international outsourcing by using firm-level data from the Finnish manufacturing … sector. A major advantage of our data is that outsourcing is defined based on firms’ actual use of intermediate inputs from … foreign trade statistics. The estimates show that intensive outsourcing (more than two times the 2-digit industry median) does …

strong comparative advantage. This paper finds that India owes its IT specialisation in part to its reliance on offshoring … of the reasons for offshoring. …