"offshoring", and provides a preliminary investigation of the impact of intermediate imported inputs on employment and wages in … offshoring on domestic labor demand and wages. The second section of the paper presents offshoring trends and discusses the … results of the econometric analysis. Results suggest that offshoring has a general negative impact on employment and wages …

We present a model of offshoring of tasks to a developing nation, which is characterized by a minimum wage formal … informal sector. An improvement in the productivity in performing offshored tasks in the developing country raises offshoring … improvements in the informal sector expand both offshoring and outsourcing, and the developed nation wage must rise. When the …

The paper extends Dei (2010) to check the role of time zone difference on offshoring of service tasks when the quality … time. The problem of the service producers is to choose between domestic production and offshoring. Domestic production … employs high-quality skilled labours but the time management is inefficient. On the other hand, offshoring to a non …

In this paper, in order to study the impact of offshoring on sectoral and economywide rates ofunemployment, we … tooffshoring. This result can be understood to arise from the productivity enhancing (costreducing) effect of offshoring. If the … search cost is identical in the two sectors, or even if thesearch cost is higher in the sector which experiences offshoring …

since the 1980s. In this paper I propose an open economy model of executive pay to study how offshoring affects the pay … model predictions empirically. Overall, I find that between 2000 and 2014 offshoring has increased executive pay levels …

The impact of offshoring on average labor productivity is investigated on a panel of 17 manufacturing sectors between … 1989-2006. As proxies for offshoring, we use imports and import penetration, defined as the ratio of imports to output. We …

workers in the middle of the wage distribution. In Offshoring in the Global Economy, noted economist Robert Feenstra offers a …, prices, and productivity on the macroeconomics of offshoring. In a concluding chapter, he addresses the broader implications … of both empirical and theoretical work on offshoring and suggests directions for future research. Ohlin Lectures series …