This paper empirically assesses the responsiveness of US offshoring to intellectual property rights (IPR) reforms in 16 … countries. We construct a measure of US offshoring at the industry level based on trade in intermediate goods, covering 23 … industries for the period 1973–2006. For each industry, we differentiate between broad offshoring and intra-industry offshoring …

This paper considers whether offshoring has been a contributing factor to the increase in the wage gap between lower … and higher skilled workers. It shows that offshoring was not a driver of the increasing skills premium in the United … Kingdom between 1992 and 2004. On the contrary, the wage gap would actually have been bigger in the absence of offshoring …

This paper considers whether offshoring has been a contributing factor to the increase in the wage gap between lower … and higher skilled workers. It shows that offshoring was not a driver of the increasing skills premium in the United … Kingdom between 1992 and 2004. On the contrary, the wage gap would actually have been bigger in the absence of offshoring …

We study the phenomena of offshoring, understood as the import of intermediate goods and services. First, we quantify … it for the US and Spain, and show it was continuosly growing for the last decades, remarkably, for offshoring of services …. Between 1995 and 1999 the annual average growth rate of the offshoring measure for Spain was 3.38%. In particular, it reached …

: outsourcing, biased technological change, and total biased technological change. We find that for the 1980-1999 period the change … in outsourcing accounts for between 28 and 36 percent of the observed wage change, and biased technological change for … change. In sum, we find that outsourcing and biased technological change can account for a large share of the observed …