, 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 …

Offshoring—the transfer of an industrial activity abroad—has become a fact of life for business. But it is also … the potential loss of domestic jobs. This groundbreaking report provides new insights into the phenomenon of offshoring …. First, the report defines offshoring in detail, allowing readers to see the many ways that industrial activity—both in …

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 …

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 …

In this paper we explore the role that demand uncertainty plays for the offshoring decision, and the role that … offshoring plays for domestic volatility of employment. Offshoring is modeled as in Antràs & Helpman (2004), but we assume … firm's employment decision in its domestic and offshore production. In this environment, offshoring is driven by …