unbundling and offshoring of services activities from advanced to developing countries, including those in Latin America. This … offshoring has gradually evolved into more sophisticated forms of business process outsourcing. Several countries in the region …

In this paper, I estimate the impact of service offshoring on the real wages of U.S. workers by controlling for workers …' skill levels and the offshoring susceptibility of different tasks. Matching individual-level wage data with input … results from a Mincerian wage regression indicate that within skill groups, the impact of service offshoring on real wages …

Services offshoring is on the rise. Due to recent innovations in communication technologies, many services that used to … over the past decades, indicating under-exploitation of the potential for services offshoring. To understand this … establishes that the level of services offshoring is lower in industries with greater offshoring potentials, as captured by their …

offshoring service tasks. As a result, services with stronger tradability characteristics are at a higher risk of being offshored … market implications of service offshoring. Indeed, recent literature suggests that both skill-intensity and tradability are …

In this paper, I analyse the relationship between offshoring and ICT at the firm level differentiating between … measures, overall, the results reveal a positive relationship between offshoring and ICT. Thus, they support the argument that … ICT might be relevant for offshoring. Controlling for other firm characteristics, software to coordinate and to manage the …

on their highly specialized service input structure, as an instrument to identify the impact of service offshoring. We …

substantial increase in offshoring of services over the last two decades. Research investigating how this surge in service … offshoring affects employment, has been largely hampered by the paucity of suitable microdata. This paper tries to fill this gap … on the impact of goods and service offshoring on total employment and employment by educational levels for both …