, 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 …

been for decades. What are the labor market consequences of the recent surge in services offshoring? While offshoring has … traditionally been found to affect only less-skilled workers in industrialized countries, this study finds that services offshoring … services offshoring has grown, who is most affected and what policy makers can do. Winkler measures the impact of services …

In this paper we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage, employment and … displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring, organizing our discussion around the three key elements … of offshoring: that it involves intermediate inputs for production (vs. final goods for consumption); that it involves …