services offshoring increased sectoral labour productivity, but reduced German manufacturing employment. The overall results …Economists have recently recognised services offshoring as an important influence on domestic labour market outcomes … trade has further accelerated the volume of services trade. Our econometric estimations focus on services offshoring by …

This work offers new insights into the determinants of service offshoring across countries and across service … offshoring costs for all services, while the effects of other characteristics depend on the coordination requirements of the … effects of a membership in NAFTA, and a common colonial past on service offshoring patterns depend on the task content of the …

important factor from the 1990s onwards. -- wage inequality ; polarization ; occupational tasks ; offshoring ; RIF-regressions …