Offshoring White-Collar Work — Issues & Implications

Brookings Trade Forum 2005 - An annual conference and volume that addresses issues in international trade and macroeconomics. The 2005 Forum is the eighth in the series.

Offshoring: Threats and Opportunities — By Daniel Trefler (University of Toronto)

Modeling the Offshoring of White-Collar Services: From Comparative Advantage to the New Theories of Trade and FDI — By James Markusen (University of Colorado)Trends in Employment at U.S. Multinational

Trends in Employment at U.S. Multinational Companies: Evidence from Firm-Level Data — By Maria Borga (Bureau of Economic Analysis)

Potential Offshoring: Evidence from Selected OECD Countries — By Desiree van Welsum (OECD)

Tradable Services: Understanding the Scope and Impact of Services Offshoring — By Brad Jensen (Institute for International Economics) and Lori Kletzer (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Globalization and the Outsourcing of Services: The Impact of Indian Offshoring — By Rafiq Dossani (Stanford University)

Case Study 1 : Offshoring and Radiology - By Frank Levy (MIT)Information Technology Enabled Services and India's Growth Prospects — (PDF - 126KB)Author: T.N. Srinivasan (Yale University)

Case Study 2 : A Study of Operational Risk In Off-Shore Outsourcing Of Information Work: Evidence From Field Research - By Ravi Aron (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)

A Comparison of Service Management and Employment Systems Among In-house, Outsourced, and Offshore Call Centers — By Rosemary Batt (Cornell University)

Offshoring in the Semiconductor Industry: A Historical Perspective — By Clair Brown and Greg Linden (University of California, Berkeley)

A Fairer Deal For America's Workers In a New Era of Offshoring — By Lael Brainard and Robert Litan (Brookings Institution and the Kauffman Foundation)

The Role of U.S. Tax Policy in Offshoring — By Kimberly Clausing (Reed College)