"offshoring", is an important element of such a (global in scale) process of structural change having important implications for … of the labour force. This paper assesses the employment impact of offshoring, in five European countries (Germany, Spain … offshoring industries and types of professional groups affected by offshoring. Results provide a rather heterogeneous picture of …

rise in offshoring and low-skilled immigration, and we develop a three-country stochastic growth model to rationalize this … outcome. In the model, the increase in offshoring negatively affects the middle-skill occupations but benefits the high …

In this paper, we investigate the effects of offshoring on workers' job security using matched employer-employee data … from Sweden. For our observed period (1997-2011), while the share of firms engaged in offshoring fell during the period … from around 25% to 22%, offshoring per worker within offshoring firms almost doubled. We make use of this variation to …

demand effects due to offshoring. Data allow us to distinguish between goods and service offshoring and from which country … Swedish firms source their inputs. Overall, our results give no support to the fears that offshoring of goods or services lead … effects from offshoring lead to increasing relative demand of high-skilled labor, mainly due to service offshoring. …

the association between offshoring within Swedish MNEs and changes their parent employment at regional level (in local …-routine) in the parent. Our results reveal large spatial heterogeneities in the relationships between MNE offshoring and onshore … employment in various regions. The results suggest that MNE offshoring might be a factor contributing to diverging onshore …

outsourcing activities, thereby increasing the wage dispersion and, if labour markets are unionised, also the employment of high … associated with the fall of the Iron Curtain, indeed stimulate outsourcing to Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and … second, that outsourcing to these countries significantly shifts relative employment in favour of high- skilled labour. …