Much Ado About Nothing: American Jobs and the Rise of Service Outsourcing to China and India

By Runjuan Liu, Dan Trefler. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Public Administration

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Citations in the corpus

• The tradability of services: Geographic concentration and trade costs (2019, unknown): “2Notable exceptions include Liu and Trefler (2008) which examines the impact of services outsourcing using data on U.S. worker employment outcomes.”
• Offshoring and Labor Markets (2018, methodology): “OFFjt is the employment by foreign affiliates of US multinationals and EHMP 2014 distinguish 36 Liu and Trefler (2008) also study the effects of US exports to China and India, and find them small.”
• Recent Findings on Trade and Inequality (2010, unknown): “Liu and Trefler (2008) analyze the impact of not only offshoring but also inshoring—the sale of service produced in the US to unaffiliated buyers in China and India—across several indicators: workers' change of occupation and industry; weeks spent unemployed as a share of total weeks in the labor…”
• Services Trade and Policy (2010, background): “…Görg and Raff, 2009), German and Austrian outsourcing patterns (Marin 2007), patterns of outsourcing by African firms (Arnold, Mattoo and Narciso 2008), the behavior of British service trading firms (Breinlichy and Criscuolo 2009), and services outsourcing by U.S. firms (Liu and Trefler 2008).”
• Globalization and U.S. Wages: Modifying Classic Theory to Explain Recent Facts (2012, background): “Liu and Trefler (2008) find that outsourcing of traded services has reduced U.S. industry earnings, but that these effects are “tiny;””
• The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States (2013, methodology): “Ebenstein et al. (2010), who like Liu and Trefler (2008) use data from the CPS, find larger effects of trade on wages, with wages growing more slowly in occupations more exposed to import penetration and to US multinationals moving production offshore.8 Our approach is complementary to this strand…”
• Offshoring and the skill structure of labour demand (2012, methodology): “To control for this possibility we use an instrumental variables approach suggested by Liu and Trefler (2008). Liu and Trefler (2008) suggest using Onc OG8 nc as an instrument for the”