Offshoring
Offshoring is the relocation of a business process from one country to another—typically an operational process, such as manufacturing, or supporting processes, such as accounting. Typically this refers to a company business, although state governments may also employ offshoring. More recently, technical and administrative services have been offshored. Offshoring and outsourcing are not mutually inclusive: there can be one without the other. They can be intertwined (offshore outsourcing), and can be individually or jointly, partially or completely reversed, involving terms such as reshoring, inshoring, and insourcing. Offshoring is when the offshored work is done by means of an internal (captive) …
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CSE: Centre for Science and Environment · 10 July 2024 English
• At the end of the year, the importer will declare the emissions of products imported and surrender an equivalent number of certificates to the authorities. [...] The UNFCCC defines …
North for years of cheap polluting energy use, offshoring, and the use of cheap offsets. By implementing …
NCAER: National Council of Applied Economic Research · 6 July 2024 English
Disclaimer: The papers and the associated comments represent the views of the individual authors and do not imply agreement by the IPF Editors or the Governing Body, officers, or staff …
2023. “Effect of Minimum Wages on Automation and Offshoring Decisions of Firms: Evidence from India”, Mimeo …
NCAER: National Council of Applied Economic Research · 6 July 2024 English
Our takeaway from these statistics is that the growth in manufacturing productivity, as measured by sales per worker, has slowed considerably in the past decade, particularly in the several years …
2023. “Effect of Minimum Wages on Automation and Offshoring Decisions of Firms: Evidence from India”, Mimeo …
CIGS: Canon Institute for Global Studies · 2 July 2024 English
We focus our study on the following questions: What is the interplay between the slowdown in low- skill immigration, the reduction in the skill premium and the decision of native …
model with endogenous immigration, training and offshoring choices that allows us to study the inter-linkages … and Foreign countries, to which we refer to as offshoring like in Mandelman and Zlate (2022). Due to remarkable … phenomenon with fixed and iceberg costs of task offshoring, as well as a stochastic shock to the iceberg … to disentangle the separate contributions of offshoring (international trade) and low-skill immigration … low-skill immigrants and time-varying cost of offshoring predicted by our model as latent variables are …
World Bank Group · 27 June 2024 English
This paper studies the dynamic effects of export exposure on local labor markets in Indonesia, that is, how an increase in exports affects a range of labor market indicators over …
J., & Xiang, C. (2014). The Wage Effects of Offshoring: Evidence from Danish Matched Worker-Firm Data …
IMF: International Monetary Fund · 21 June 2024 English
The need for Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries to diversify their economies is more urgent than ever. However, despite its established economic benefits, several challenges have precluded diversification in SSA. Against …
beyond the ICT sector. This includes business-offshoring processing, information technology outsourcing …
World Bank Group · 21 June 2024 English
The world of work is facing one of the most significant technological transformationssince industrialization. Throughout history, technological developments have transformedthe economy and shaped jobs. Since the First Industrial Revolution in …
ropean countries has been widely attributed to offshoring and skills-biased technological change.7 While … Polarization: Routine-Biased Technological Change and Offshoring.” American Economic Review, 104 (8): 2509-26 … polarization: Rou- tine-biased technological change and offshoring.” American economic review 104.8 (2014): 2509-2526 …
UN: The United Nations · 20 June 2024 English
164 p. charts, graphs, tablesGlobal foreign direct investment (FDI) fell by 2% to $1.3 trillion in 2023 amid an economic slowdown and rising geopolitical tensions, according to the World Investment …
partially reversing the earlier trend towards offshoring. This shift has been driven by several factors …
Cato Institute · 20 June 2024 English
Illustrations by Mike McQuade
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, which was also hit hard by the offshoring of the textile industry through the 1990s. “Alabama …
ERIA: Economic Research Institute for ASEAN & East Asia · 18 June 2024 English
ERIA Discussion Paper 2024-10, No. 517
Regional Amenities, Services May 2024 (No. 508) Offshoring, and Skilled Employment in the Republic of Korea …
