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 …

Recent empirical studies have been searching for evidence on and driving forces for offshoring. Frequently, this has … competing with the role of multilateral trade resistance. Our results support evidence for offshoring activities across Europe …

faster task offshoring in sectors exposed to lower labour-market tightness. We discuss policy implications of these findings. …

We develop a theoretical framework to explain firms' offshoring decisions in the presence of uncertainty. This model … sharp prediction of the prevalence of offshoring in a given industry: The propensity of firms to source intermediate inputs … particularly pronounced in industries with higher volatility. Combining industry-level data on the U.S. offshoring intensity with …

countries, we find that offshoring generally lowers employment in manufacturing firms, and seems to increase the percentage of …In South Africa, the manufacturing sector -- important for growth and employment creation -- has shown declining growth …, poor productivity performance, decreased labour demand, and increased imports of intermediate goods (offshoring activities …

chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … similar frameworks. In the first framework the profitability of offshoring is based on increasing returns to scale on the task …-level, whereas the second framework relies on differences in relative factor endowments of the two countries involved in offshoring …

This paper assesses the impact of international outsourcing/offshoring practices on the process of wage equalization … across manufacturing sectors in a sample of EU27 economies (1995-2009). We discriminate between heterogeneous wage effects on … outsourcing/offshoring indices based on input-output data (World Input Output Database, April 2012 release). Two-way relations …

international trade in manufacturing inputs. Being particularly interested in the wage effects of offshoring to low wage countries …This paper extends the literature on the implications of offshoring for labour markets by investigating its effect on … project, and in the panel analysed (13 manufacturing industries, 40 countries, 1995 – 2009) we capture up to 96% of the …

Recent empirical studies have been searching for evidence on and driving forces for offshoring. Frequently, this has … competing with the role of multilateral trade resistance. Our results support evidence for offshoring activities across Europe …