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 …

This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in U.S. manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000 …, using instrumental variables estimation to address the potential endogeneity of offshoring. It finds that service offshoring … during this period. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the magnitude is smaller …

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 …