This paper provides new evidence on how offshoring shifts relative labor demand for tasks at the industry level. A … novel theoretical mechanism, based on sorting of heterogeneous workers into occupations with task dependent offshoring cost …, guides estimation. Cost shares of tasks are linked to offshoring in a panel estimation using German data for 1998-2007. It is …

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 …

National concerns are sometimes raised against offshoring of economic activities to other countries. While most of the … the Swedish manufacturing sector to analyze how offshoring impacts domestic R&D and how these effects vary with respect to … target region and type of firm. The results suggest that offshoring of production alter a firm’s investments in R&D in Sweden …

National concerns are sometimes raised against offshoring of economic activities to other countries. While most of the … the Swedish manufacturing sector to analyze how offshoring impacts domestic R&D and how these effects vary with respect to … target region and type of firm. The results suggest that offshoring of production alter a firm’s investments in R&D in Sweden …

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 …

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

This paper examines the impact of offshoring on labour elasticities for a sample of 40 countries over the period 1995 …-2009 using the recently compiled World Input-Output Database (WIOD). Including measures of narrow and broad offshoring, as well … as indicators of manufacturing and services offshoring, in conditional and unconditional labour demand equations we find …