This paper looks at the implications of offshoring for industry employment whilst explicitly accounting for the scale … and technology effects of offshoring. The effects of offshoring on employment are analysed using industry-level data for … 17 high income OECD countries. Our findings indicate that offshoring has no effect or a slight positive effect on …

In this paper, in order to study the impact offshoring on sectoral and economywide rates of unemployment, we construct … offshoring. This result can be understood to arise from the productivity enhancing (cost reducing) effect of offshoring. If the … search cost is identical in the two sectors, or is higher in the sector which experiences offshoring, the economywide rate of …

of offshoring in the US, EU-15 and Japan. A three-tier data validity hierarchy is identified, while the employment impact … of offshoring in the three regions is found to be limited. Correspondingly, developing Asia is unlikely to experience …

This paper examines the relationship between the share of employment potentially affected by offshoring and economic … by offshoring and exports of business services, and a negative association with imports of business services. However …