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 …

offshoring (integration) and sourcing strategies and (4) location of firms and labor markets. Second, we overview existing …

The last decade has been shaped by dramatic developments in international trade, international investment and …

In this paper, in order to study the impact of offshoring on sectoral and economy wide rates of unemployment, we … increases and sectoral unemployment decreases upon offshoring in the presence of perfect intersectoral labor mobility. If, as a … unemployment. With imperfect intersectoral labor mobility, unemployment in the offshoring sector can rise, with an unambiguous …

rise in offshoring. To analyze the relationship between globalization, offshoring and relative wages, we develop a general … equilibrium model of trade and offshoring. This reveals that globalization and offshoring have two opposing effects on relative … wages: greater vertical specialization increases wage inequality, while greater international competition increases wage …

be partly explained by the export-magnification effect of offshoring. In a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous … firms we show analytically that a fall in variable offshoring costs boosts trade in differentiated final goods through an … intra-industry reallocation of resources towards the more productive firms. More specifically, lower barriers to offshoring …

In this paper we examine the link between international outsourcing – or offshoring – and the skill structure of labour … cross-industry dimension and split employment into three skill categories. Our results indicate that while offshoring has …