of competitive pressure: relocation of assembly operations and offshoring of automotive parts production. The knowledge …

results of offshoring and its impact on jobs, adding new perspectives to the globalization debate. Globalization entails a …-way street. In 2002–05 more jobs were created as a result of offshoring of activities into eastern Denmark from companies outside … Denmark (i.e., inshored to Denmark) than were eliminated due to offshoring from companies in the Danish region. Overall, the …

workers in the middle of the wage distribution. In Offshoring in the Global Economy, noted economist Robert Feenstra offers a …, prices, and productivity on the macroeconomics of offshoring. In a concluding chapter, he addresses the broader implications … of both empirical and theoretical work on offshoring and suggests directions for future research. Ohlin Lectures series …

-level imports by country of origin and further distinguish between firm-level offshoring of final versus intermediate goods. Results … competition has no effect on firm survival, while offshoring of finished goods to China actually increases firms' probability of … in low-tech Belgian manufacturing over our period of analysis. Offshoring to China further accounts for a small but …

demand effects due to offshoring. Data allow us to distinguish between goods and service offshoring and from which country … Swedish firms source their inputs. Overall, our results give no support to the fears that offshoring of goods or services lead … effects from offshoring lead to increasing relative demand of high-skilled labor, mainly due to service offshoring. …

In this paper, we analyze how the offshoring of services by Swedish firms is affected by corruption in target economies … service offshoring. Firms avoid corrupt countries, and corruption reduces the amount of offshored services. In addition, the …

In this paper, we analyze how the offshoring of services by Swedish firms is affected by corruption in target economies …