This paper looks at the implications of offshoring for industry employment whilst explicitly accounting for the scale … and technology effects of offshoring. The effects of offshoring on employment are analysed using industry-level data for … 17 high income OECD countries. Our findings indicate that offshoring has no effect or a slight positive effect on …

). It turns out that, compared to non-offshoring firms, firms that relocated activities were larger and more productive, and … relocate, and this points to self-selection of betterʺ firms into offshoring. This finding is in line with results from recent … others were not. Broadly in line with hypotheses derived from the literature there is no evidence that offshoring has a …

). It turns out that, compared to non-offshoring firms, firms that relocated activities were larger and more productive, and … relocate, and this points to self-selection of "better" firms into offshoring. This finding is in line with results from recent … others were not. Broadly in line with hypotheses derived from the literature there is no evidence that offshoring has a …

). It turns out that, compared to non-offshoring firms, firms that relocated activities were larger and more productive, and … relocate, and this points to self-selection of "better" firms into offshoring. This finding is in line with results from recent … others were not. Broadly in line with hypotheses derived from the literature there is no evidence that offshoring has a …

Economists have recently recognised services offshoring as an important influence on domestic labour market outcomes … trade has further accelerated the volume of services trade. Our econometric estimations focus on services offshoring by … offshoring on labour productivity. We then measure the effects of services offshoring on labour demand. The results show that …

This paper analyses the effect of offshoring (i.e., the relocation of activities previously performed in-house to …, we find that offshoring is a rare event: In the sample of firms with 50 or more persons employed, only about 3% of … manufacturing firms and 1% of business service firms have performed offshoring in the period 2014-2016. Second, difference …