Offshoring of US jobs is controversial. Critics fear that offshoring will lead to lost jobs and lower domestic wages at … into offshoring. Given a shock that lowers offshoring costs, the theory predicts that domestic wages rise at firms that … offshore relative to domestic wages at firms that do not. The theory also predicts that domestic employment could rise or fall …

effects of offshoring on aggregate demand and domestic employment. Offshoring is represented as labor-saving import … employment. If the markup remains constant, the net effect of offshoring on domestic demand and employment is ambiguous; it … through higher markups, the scale effect of labor demand is negative, and offshoring unambiguously reduces domestic demand and …

services offshoring increased sectoral labour productivity, but reduced German manufacturing employment. The overall results …Economists have recently recognised services offshoring as an important influence on domestic labour market outcomes … trade has further accelerated the volume of services trade. Our econometric estimations focus on services offshoring by …

In this paper, I estimate the impact of service offshoring on the real wages of U.S. workers by controlling for workers …' skill levels and the offshoring susceptibility of different tasks. Matching individual-level wage data with input … results from a Mincerian wage regression indicate that within skill groups, the impact of service offshoring on real wages …

We discuss the effects of offshoring on the labor market in a matching model with endogenous adjustment of educational … skills. We carry out a comparative statics analysis and show that offshoring leads to a restructuring of the economy through … skill-biased technical change (SBTC) where overall welfare is improved. In a policy exercise we show that, if offshoring …