explanation is at odds with the sequence of observed facts. We propose and model an alternative scenario in which offshoring …

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 …

on offshoring. Furthermore, when splitting the sample according to the technological level, the effect is negative and …

floor level) and the principle of effective demand. In particular we focus on the role of technology and offshoring as … Kingdom. The contrasting effects of R&D and offshoring emerge as determinants of wages. Investment and internal demands are … the intuition that offshoring hits the medium-low skill categories. …

While most of the offshoring literature focuses on the effects on relative wages, other implications do not receive the … industry where offshoring takes place. If offshoring takes place in high-skill intensive industries, the high-skill labor ratio … increases (vice versa if offshoring takes place in low-skill intensive industries). Results are in line with other empirical …

rise in offshoring and low-skilled immigration, and we develop a three-country stochastic growth model to rationalize this … outcome. In the model, the increase in offshoring negatively affects the middle-skill occupations but benefits the high …