percentage points for services and 0.48 to 0.64 for materials. -- offshoring ; Japan ; employment ; productivity …First moves towards a real understanding of offshoring date back to very recent times. In particular for Japan, the … studies conducted so far focus alone on the productivity effects of offshoring at the firm level. Here I carry out the …

First moves towards a real understanding of offshoring date back to very recent times. In particular for Japan, the … studies conducted so far focus alone on the productivity effects of offshoring at the firm level. Here I carry out the … analysis of both the employment and productivity effects at the aggregate level of the industry, covering the years 1980 …

employment and productivity effects occupying much of the literature around the subject. In particular for Japan, the studies … employment and the productivity effects at the aggregate industry level, covering the years 1980-2005. Moreover, I consider all … we should expect a positive effect of services offshoring on employment, and a positive effect of materials offshoring on …

domestic labor force at the sector-level. In order to better elucidate the offshoring employment relationship, this paper … condition where firms pay a real wage that exceeds the market clearing level and varies with productivity; (ii) an open economy … production-side shock that changes firms' offshoring decision can influence the local economy and its labor market. …

effect ambiguous. This paper investigates the employment effects of service offshoring in a newly combined and exceptionally … service offshoring has increased firm employment. In line with the canonical trade in tasks model, the employment gains are …Major technological advances have recently spurred a new wave of offshoring in services, which used to be non …

findings from the literature on how productivity, innovation, and employment were impacted by the Great Liberalizationa period … limits of trade policy in boosting employment and long-term productivity growth. Policymakers should manage their … employment effects. The results reinforce some of the key findings of the earlier literature, notably the positive …

Through their influence on the cross-sectional distribution of productivity across firms and workers, job creation and … destruction likely have an impact on the rate at which aggregate productivity changes over time. However, the nature of this … effect is not, a priori, clear. While a broad consensus has emerged suggesting that job destruction enhances productivity by …

(GOLE). Our main result is that offshoring generates a hump-shaped pattern of employment changes across industries. While … the relocation effect reduces employment in offshoring-intensive industries, labor demand in industries with a high … part, we test the non-monotonic employment effects across industries in response to an offshoring shock by focusing on …

(GOLE). Our main result is that offshoring generates a hump-shaped pattern of employment changes across industries. While … the relocation effect reduces employment in offshoring-intensive industries, labor demand in industries with a high … part, we test the non-monotonic employment effects across industries in response to an offshoring shock by focusing on …