The fear of massive job losses has prompted a fast-growing literature on offshoring and its impact on employment in … advanced economies. This paper examines the situation for Belgium. The offshoring intensity is computed as a volume measure of … period 1995-2003. Both materials and business services offshoring to high-wage and low-wage countries are addressed. The …

external shocks (e.g. manufacturing offshoring, oil shocks) impact the labor market along sectoral lines, i.e. they impact … offshoring, affect horizontals or occupations. We find that an occupation spread across many industrial sectors is less volatile …

This paper analyses how increased offshoring impacts on labor income risk. It is therefore distinct from a large number … variability of incomes. It provides an assessment that directly connects labor income risk and offshoring trends in a panel … suggest that offshoring tends to lower permanent income risk. This effect is particularly strong for offshoring to low …

. Computers and electronics have undergone sector-wide offshoring and typically feature an oligopolistic market structure, in … which firms’ profits depend on their own and rivals’ costs. To incorporate the endogenous evolution of offshoring … incentives and market structure, I model and estimate a dynamic offshoring game with entry/exit, using unique data on hard disk …

explanation is at odds with the sequence of observed facts. We propose and model an alternative scenario in which offshoring …

We analyze the effects of low-skill workers offshoring on the welfare of the economy. In the context of a matching … effects of offshoring, namely, an increase of the unemployment benefits and the flexibilization of the labor market. Our … unemployment benefits but only a small reduction in the vacancy cost to compensate for the negative welfare effects of offshoring …