The impact of offshoring on domestic jobs is more complicated than it first appears. In the standard narrative …, offshoring production is thought to harm domestic workers by providing cheap alternative sources of labor. However, while … offshoring may directly displace domestic workers, the resulting foreign market access and lower production costs allow domestic …

This paper investigates the effects of offshoring on individual job satisfaction and perceived risk of job loss. The … industries with higher offshoring intensity report lower job satisfaction and/or are more prone to be unsecure at their jobs …. Second, they test whether these effects differ among four categories of collars. Their findings indicate that offshoring is …

shares of high-skill as well as low-skill workers in the total workforce. The effects of off-shoring on wages and job … composition are also studied. Off-shoring of low-skill and high-skill tasks, not middle-skill tasks, is shown to contribute … technical change ; terms of trade ; off-shoring …