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 …

We link industry-level data on trade and offshoring with individual-level worker data from the Current Population …

A simple model of offshoring, which depicts offshoring as 'shadow migration,' permits straightforward derivation of … necessary and sufficient conditions for the effects on wages, prices, production and trade. We show that offshoring requires … modification of the four classic international trade theorems, so econometricians who ignore offshoring might reject the Heckscher …

We estimate how offshoring and exporting affect wages by skill type. Our data match the population of Danish workers to … countries. Our data reveal new stylized facts about offshoring activities at the firm level, and allow us to both condition our … identification on within-job-spell changes and construct instruments for offshoring and exporting that are time varying and …

Outsourced workers experience large wage declines, yet domestic outsourcing may raise aggregate productivity. To study … wage premia. Second, outsourcing raises output at the firm level. Third, contractors endogenously locate at the bottom of … the job ladder, implying that outsourced workers receive lower wages. Using firm-level instruments for outsourcing and …

We develop a theory of outsourcing in which there is market power in one factor market (labor) and no market power in a … show there is always outsourcing in the market allocation when a friction limiting outsourcing is not too big. The key … equilibria that vary in the degree of outsourcing. Across these equilibria, wages are lower the greater the degree of outsourcing …

relevant prevalence of outsourcing and foreign direct investment …

confidential Mexican economic census data from 1994 to 2019, we document a rising trend over this period in on-site outsourcing … domestic outsourcing in 2021, we show that the ban drastically reduced outsourcing, increased wages, and reduced measured …