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 …

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

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 …