paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in US manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000, using … instrumental variables estimation to address the potential endogeneity of offshoring. It finds that service offshoring has a …. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the magnitude is smaller accounting for approximately …

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 … effects. In the manufacturing sector, especially in-house offshoring of R&D has a significant negative impact on the plan to …

There is evidence that better performing firms tend to enter international markets. Internationally active firms are … in international activity are found especially in firms from less advanced economies that interact with partners from … more advanced economies. Lowering barriers to the international division of labor should be part of any pro-growth policy. …

In this paper, we assess the extent of offshoring in the Italian manufacturing industries, and we study how this … phenomenon is affecting the skill composition of employment. Measuring offshoring using the import-use matrices of input …-output tables, firstly we estimate the impact of offshoring on the general level of employment, and we don’t find any significant …

First moves towards a real understanding of the offshoring phenomenon date back to very recent times, with employment …-2005. Moreover, I consider all industries within the economy and take account of both materials and services offshoring. The results … presented here suggest that we can expect a positive effect of services offshoring on employment, and a positive effect of …

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 …

The article summarises the main lessons of the Bank’s 2010 conference which focused on international trade and foreign … larger and more productive than firms concentrating on the home market. The costs of entering international markets determine … tending to concentrate their exports on their leading products and to upgrade quality. The international activities of some …

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 …