In this paper, in order to study the impact of offshoring on sectoral and economywide rates of unemployment, we …, the economywide rate of unemployment decreases. We also find multiple equilibrium outcomes in the extent of offshoring and … therefore, in the unemployment rate. Furthermore, a firm can increase its domestic employment through offshoring. Also, such a …

We survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wages, employment and displacement. We start … with the measurement of offshoring, focusing on the use of imported inputs that could have been produced by the importing … firm. We overview key theories related to offshoring and its labor market effects and survey three waves of the literature …

We examine the impact on U.S. labor markets of offshore outsourcing in services to China and India. We also consider … positive effects of inshoring and smaller negative effects of offshore outsourcing. The net effect is positive. To illustrate … how small the effects are, suppose that over the next nine years all of inshoring and offshore outsourcing grew at rates …

) Downward and upward occupational switching increased by 17% and 4%, respectively. (2) Transitions to unemployment increased by …

We use firm-level data on U.S. multinationals to show how offshoring affects domestic employment within and across … firms. We introduce a new instrument for offshoring: Bilateral Tax Treaties, which reduce the cost of offshore activities … in employment at the U.S. parent firm, with smaller effects at the industry and regional levels. In contrast, offshoring …