level. The analysis is based on a Finnish weighted sample of 652 firms and screens the effect of offshoring different kinds … of tasks. Two main channels of offshoring tasks are taken into account: offshore outsourcing and in-house offshoring. The … main conclusion is that offshoring can significantly affect the total domestic employment but that the significance and the …

US and Europe, incorporating the hidden costs of offshoring - including long-term risks and opportunities - in order to … advantages suggests that overall, offshoring and inshoring countries will gain from the new international division of labour in …

assumption that an expanding export in other business and ICT services has been associated with offshoring services in the six … additional factors favouring nearshoring (as in CEE locations) over offshoring (e.g. India) and lists several factors besides …

Recent empirical studies have been searching for evidence on and driving forces for offshoring. Typically, this search … incomplete specialisation with complete specialisation as a natural limiting case. Results support evidence for offshoring … latest waves of offshoring activities from old to new EU members may have been more likely to hurt (low-skill) workers in the …

more recently, globalization has stalled. This paper shows that higher uncertainty, in combination with better automation … technologies, has likely contributed to that trend reversal. We show that plausibly exogenous exposure to uncertainty in developing … generated spikes in uncertainty, for which the narrative around the events suggest that they are plausibly exogenous. In a small …