We study the relationship between offshoring and job stability in Italy in the period 1995–2001 by using an … stability. Service offshoring and material purchases from developed countries foster job-to-job transitions within manufacturing … material offshoring to low income countries which drives blue collar workers out of manufacturing. Therefore, policy …

means of System GMM allowing for the endogeneity of our right hand side regressors, especially our offshoring measures. Our … results bear a negative offshoring effect which is attributable exclusively to imports of intermediates from low income … for imports from high income countries. These findings are robust to the different measures of offshoring and to the …