First moves towards a real understanding of the offshoring phenomenon date back to very recent times, with employment … presented here suggest that we can expect a positive effect of services offshoring on employment, and a positive effect of … analyses of the employment and productivity effects at the aggregate level of the industry, covering the years 1980 …

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 …