Offshoring and employment : trends and impacts / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-220).

Also available in French under the title: Les délocalisations et l'emploi : tendances et impacts.

Also issued electronically via the World Wide Web as part of SourceOECD.

Offshoring -- the transfer of an industrial activity abroad -- has become a fact of life for business, but it is also perceived as a threat by a large segment of the general public, and much of the public concern centers on employment, especially the potential loss of domestic jobs. This report first defines offshoring in detail, the many ways that industrial activity -- both in manufacturing and in services -- can be transferred abroad. It then describes the wide-ranging effects that offshoring can have on domestic employment -- the positive, as well as the negative. Finally, it outlines the public policy implications of offshoring, suggesting ways to limit the downside while helping to build trust between the various stakeholders working to address this issue.--Publisher's description.

Ch. 1. Defining offshoring -- Ch. 2. How offshoring affects employment -- Ch. 3. Problems of measurement -- Ch. 4. Preliminary results -- Ch. 5. Policy responses -- Annex 1. Simultaneous decline in production, employment and exports and growth in imports, by sector, in the manufacturing sector -- Annex 2. Problems encountered while analysing data in section 4.6 -- Annex 3. Index of outsourcing abroad and growth of unemployment -- Annex 4. Evolution of employment qualifications in the European Union countries, the United States and Japan -- Annex 5. Responses of member countries to the OECD questionnaire.