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 …

The recent media and political attention on service outsourcing from developed to developing countries gives the … impression that outsourcing is exploding. As a result, workers in industrial countries are anxious about job losses. This Paper … aims to establish what are the hypes and what are the facts. The results show that although service outsourcing has been …

The newest wave of globalization is the offshoring of information technology, administrative and technical services …, especially relative to India– the world’s largest outsourcing beneficiary. It also discusses the current ITAS market in Mexico …

This study analyses the extent and motives of outsourcing and offshoring. We find that in early 2000, 10, 000 23, 000 …&D jobs have been relocated from Finland. Outsourcing is most commonly observed in ser-vice-related functions, but also … flexibility increases. In terms of R&D outsourcing, attempts to acquire knowledge, increase flexibility and reduce costs are …

We provide the first firm-level evidence of the impact of the trade in producer services (“offshoring”) on the labour …

the potential for offshoring e-tradable services, especially among developed countries, old EU members (EU 15) and CEE …

In this paper, I estimate the impact of service offshoring on the real wages of U.S. workers by controlling for workers …’ skill levels and the offshoring susceptibility of different tasks. Matching individual-level wage data with input … results from a Mincerian wage regression indicate that within skill groups, the impact of service offshoring on real wages …