National concerns are sometimes raised against offshoring of economic activities to other countries. While most of the … the Swedish manufacturing sector to analyze how offshoring impacts domestic R&D and how these effects vary with respect to … target region and type of firm. The results suggest that offshoring of production alter a firm’s investments in R&D in Sweden …

) income inequality. These include within-industry effects due to heterogeneous firms, the effects of offshoring of tasks …

) can offshore routine tasks to a low-wage host country. The most productive firms self-select into offshoring, and the … impact on welfare in the source country can be positive or negative, depending on the share of firms engaged in offshoring … among entrepreneurs is higher with offshoring than in autarky. All results hold in a model extension with firm-level rent …

-skilled hiring of immigrants: multinational firms faced with decreased access to visas for skilled workers have an offshoring option …-skilled immigration policies on the offshoring of high-skilled jobs by US multinational companies using a unique matched firm … of the paper have important policy implications; the offshoring of jobs appears to be an unforeseen consequence of …

offshoring” process on U.S. domestic employment and earnings in relevant services sectors. It draws upon relatively new … offshoring process sparked intense professional discussion. The study documents that U.S. trade in IT-enabled services is … computer services, an indication of substantial offshoring in that area; moreover, the significant two-way trade pattern in the …

Over the last decades, the intensification of offshoring movements has generated important impacts on labour markets … literature that estimates the effect of offshoring on employment in the origin country. We find that, although the overall effect …, the estimation technique, the way offshoring is measured, and the unit of analysis. We also find that on average the …

We employ input-output tables to study the relation between off-shoring and productivity growth in the Italian … manufacturing industries in 1995-2003. Our results indicate that not all types of off-shoring are positively related to productivity … growth. In particular, the international outsourcing of intermediates within the same industry (“narrow off-shoring”) is …

This paper examines the channels through which offshoring affects employment in a representative sample of German … establishments, using a difference-in-differences matching approach. Offshoring establishments are identified by an increase in the … share of foreign to total inputs. We find that an average offshoring establishment has higher employment, higher …

We study the relation between the off-shoring of intermediates and services and productivity growth in the Italian … manufacturing industries in 1995-2003. Our results indicate that the off-shoring of intermediates within the same industry (“narrow … off-shoring”) is beneficial for productivity growth, while the off-shoring of services is not. We also find that the way …