How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it … possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation … model to jointly analyze the impact of a reduction in the costs of offshoring and of the costs of immigrating to the U …

-level imports by country of origin and distinguish between firm-level outsourcing of final versus intermediate goods. Results … indicate that, both industry-level import competition and firm-level outsourcing to China reduce firm employment growth and …-level outsourcing of finished goods to China even increased firm's probability of survival. In terms of skill upgrading, the effect of …

substantial increase in offshoring of services over the last two decades. Research investigating how this surge in service … offshoring affects employment, has been largely hampered by the paucity of suitable microdata. This paper tries to fill this gap … on the impact of goods and service offshoring on total employment and employment by educational levels for both …

This paper examines the relationship between offshoring and the prevalence and intensity of labor market imperfections …' monopsony power. Offshoring benefits Belgian and Dutch employers in that imports of final as well as intermediate goods are … Belgium, we also find that offshoring is negatively related to the intensity of wage markups measured by workers' bargaining …