Major technological advances have recently spurred a new wave of offshoring in services, which used to be non … question, suggesting that efficiency gains from offshoring may counteract direct job losses, which leaves the predicted net … effect ambiguous. This paper investigates the employment effects of service offshoring in a newly combined and exceptionally …

, it is shown that service offshoring yields wage and employment effects in the long run. These effects switch from … service offshoring on wages and employment. …

Services offshoring is on the rise. Due to recent innovations in communication technologies, many services that used to … over the past decades, indicating under-exploitation of the potential for services offshoring. To understand this … establishes that the level of services offshoring is lower in industries with greater offshoring potentials, as captured by their …

measures of outsourcing and examines their determinants and consequences for employment. There are some commonalities in the … correlates of the two measures of outsourcing, as well as agreement on the absence of adverse employment effects across all … between outsourcing and plant closings is predominantly negative, albeit poorly determined. -- Outsourcing ; organizational …

of tasks. Two main channels of offshoring tasks are taken into account: offshore outsourcing and in-house offshoring. The … offshoring channel. Offshore outsourcing of R&D has a positive effect on the anticipated domestic employment, whereas in …-house offshoring of R&D has a negative effect. Specific for the manufacturing sector is that offshore outsourcing of production also …

The offshoring of high‐tech services has greatly increased in recent years, with consequences for firms demand for … skilled employment in firms. This paper specifically analyzes the relationship between R&D offshoring and the demand for R … services firms a 1 percentage point increase in R&D offshoring raises the demand for researchers by about 11%. This suggests …

The study proves evidence of five new empirical facts on the impact of services offshoring on local labour markets …. First, services offshoring increases average employment and wages within local labour markets, much more so in the … manufacturing industry than in the services one. Second, positive effects are both on firms directly offshoring services and on non-offshoring …

I provide new empirical evidence on the direct and indirect impact of services offshoring on local employment and wages …, using a unique dataset on firms in the UK for the period 2000-2015. Exploiting variation in firms' services offshoring … across labour markets, I show positive aggregate local labour employment and wage elasticity to services offshoring …

We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular …. Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), linked with industry-level data on offshoring of materials and … significant reduction in wages as materials offshoring increases, while permanent workers’ wages are unaffected or even tend to …