This paper analyses the effect of offshoring on the growth rate and welfare of a small open economy, taking into … account the skill content of offshoring. The model exposes two opposing effects that increasing the extent of offshoring has … on the growth rate. First, offshoring has a negative effect on the growth rate by increasing the relative wage of skilled …

This paper studies the effects of service offshoring on the skill composition of labor demand, using novel comparable …, service offshoring is skill-biased, because it increases the demand for high and medium skilled labor and decreases the demand … for low skilled labor. Second, the effects of service offshoring are similar to those of material offshoring, both …

The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the occupational task profile using rich … individual-level panel data. Our main results suggest that, when only considering within-industry changes in offshoring, we … identify a moderate wage reduction due to offshoring for low-skilled workers, though wage effects in relation to the task …

Services offshoring is on the rise. Due to recent innovations in communication technologies, many services that used to … over the past decades, indicating under-exploitation of the potential for services offshoring. To understand this … establishes that the level of services offshoring is lower in industries with greater offshoring potentials, as captured by their …

When materials offshoring is measured by estimating imported intermediate inputs, a common assumption used is that an … the 3-digit I–O industry level, there is a correlation of 0.68 between the offshoring shares made with and without the …

concerns about the future of U.S. jobs and workers' incomes. However, the current extent of service offshoring is very modest …. Service offshoring is still only a minor part of the international economic competition that the U.S. faces. Service … offshoring appears to have been relatively intense for IT occupations, but the employment and wage trends in those occupations …

This paper empirically assesses the responsiveness of US offshoring to intellectual property rights (IPR) reforms in 16 … countries. We construct a measure of US offshoring at the industry level based on trade in intermediate goods, covering 23 … industries for the period 1973–2006. For each industry, we differentiate between broad offshoring and intra-industry offshoring …

The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be … suitability of a task for offshoring and the associated skill level. Accordingly, wage effects of offshoring can be very … on offshoring. Our main results suggest that in partial equilibrium, wage effects of offshoring are fairly modest but far …