This paper investigates the wage and employment effects of offshoring. I use firm-level data and two events in Mexico … as a natural experiment to identify the effects of a fall in the marginal cost of offshoring to Mexico. I find that … domestic wages actually rise at US firms likely to take advantage of this new offshoring opportunity. At the same time …

This paper analyses how increased offshoring impacts on labor income risk. It is therefore distinct from a large number … variability of incomes. It provides an assessment that directly connects labor income risk and offshoring trends in a panel … suggest that offshoring tends to lower permanent income risk. This effect is particularly strong for offshoring to low …

higher share of temporary workers appears to reduce the likelihood of future offshoring. However, once reverse causality and …

offshoring (integration) and sourcing strategies and (4) location of firms and labor markets. Second, we overview existing …

assumption that an expanding export in other business and ICT services has been associated with offshoring services in the six … additional factors favouring nearshoring (as in CEE locations) over offshoring (e.g. India) and lists several factors besides …

In this paper, we explore the role of trade in differentiated final goods as well offshoring of tasks for inequality …

subcontractors. The model predicts that offshoring cost reductions increase foreign insourcing shares for industries that have … examine how reductions in offshoring costs that are attributed to the establishment of export processing zones affect the … organization of Chinese offshoring. This study presents strong evidence supporting the model's prediction. …

level. The analysis is based on a Finnish weighted sample of 652 firms and screens the effect of offshoring different kinds … of tasks. Two main channels of offshoring tasks are taken into account : offshore outsourcing and in-house offshoring …. The main conclusion is that offshoring can significantly affect the total domestic employment but that the significance …

workers at home and abroad. In an extension to our baseline model, we illustrate that offshoring production from the high …

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 …