We provide the first firm-level evidence of the impact of the trade in producer services (“offshoring”) on the labour …

This paper explores the impact of offshoring, or contracting out of business activities to foreign providers, on firm … productivity, using Japanese firm-level data for the period 1994-2000. We find that offshoring has generally a positive effect on … productivity growth. This effect is robust to controlling for the possible endogeneity of offshoring with respect to unobserved …

growth of domestic and foreign outsourcing and offshoring. First, outsourcing and offshoring are poorly measured in U ….S. statistics, and poor measurement may impart a significant bias to manufacturing and, where offshoring is involved, aggregate … impossible to fully assess the impact that mismeasurement and cost savings from outsourcing and offshoring have had on measured …

: (i) offshoring impacts TFP negligibly but, (ii) labour cost relocation robustly causes offshoring; (iii) offshoring firms …

We investigate the issue of offshoring in a general-equilibrium model of two countries and one sector of increasing … returns to scale. Our model uncovers that offshoring occurs and endogenously evolves in a bell-shaped pattern when trade costs … the welfare issue. We find that a fall in offshoring costs benefits the high-wage country but hurts the low-wage country …

-level trade flows with firm-specific instrumental variables based on world demand and supply shocks. Both export and offshoring … shocks have a positive effect on wages. Exports increase wages for all occupational categories while offshoring has … elasticity of wages with respect to exports and offshoring is higher than in firms with no collective bargaining. Wage gains …

-level trade flows with firm-specific instrumental variables based on world demand and supply shocks. Both export and offshoring … shocks have a positive effect on wages. Exports increase wages for all occupational categories while offshoring has … elasticity of wages with respect to exports and offshoring is higher than in firms with no collective bargaining. Wage gains …

. Computers and electronics have undergone sector-wide offshoring and typically feature an oligopolistic market structure, in … which firms’ profits depend on their own and rivals’ costs. To incorporate the endogenous evolution of offshoring … incentives and market structure, I model and estimate a dynamic offshoring game with entry/exit, using unique data on hard disk …