level. The analysis is based on a Finnish weighted sample of 652 firms and screens the effect of offshoring different kinds … of tasks. Two main channels of offshoring tasks are taken into account: offshore outsourcing and in-house offshoring. The … main conclusion is that offshoring can significantly affect the total domestic employment but that the significance and the …

offshoring. The diversification dimension of globalization refers to the increase in foreign assets and liabilities in countries …' portfolios. Offshoring, instead, is related to the reallocation of financial activities to international markets, namely, to … domestic investments. However, financial globalization via offshoring has displayed more mixed patterns, with variations across …

and to introduce new products and upgrade existing products. The effect of offshoring on R&D spending is significantly …

of internationalization (in-house offshoring vs. offshore outsourcing vs. in-house expansion of R&D abroad). Moreover …This study empirically explores whether R&D offshoring affects the domestic R&D employment at the firm level. Overall …, the Finnish survey data suggest that the impact of R&D internationalization on domestic R&D employment depends on the mode …

, with services accounting for nearly half of the total intermediate imports. It seems that offshoring of services is …

In oligopolistic industries that are unionised and may be affected by offshoring, falling offshoring costs have a …' domestic outside options. Only if the latter become sufficiently attractive will redistribution induce some offshoring, and it … is only at that level that further economic integration will lead to both wage moderation and offshoring activities …

The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be … suitability of a task for offshoring and the associated skill level. Accordingly, wage effects of offshoring can be very … on offshoring. Our main results suggest that in partial equilibrium, wage effects of offshoring are fairly modest but far …

We study the relation between the off-shoring of intermediates and services and productivity growth in the Italian … manufacturing industries in 1995-2003. Our results indicate that the off-shoring of intermediates within the same industry ("narrow … off-shoring") is beneficial for productivity growth, while the off-shoring of services is not. We also find that the way …

unemployment decreases upon offshoring in the presence of perfect intersectoral labor mobility. If, as a result, labor moves to the … intersectoral labor mobility, unemployment in the offshoring sector can rise, with an unambiguous unemployment reduction in the non-offshoring …