Conference on Offshoring

Held on 19th-21st June 2008

• Conference programme
• Press release on GEP Offshoring Conference

GEP gratefully acknowledges financial support for this Conference from the Leverhulme Trust (Programme Grant F/00/114/AM), the Royal Bank of Scotland and the Nottingham School of Economics Research Committee.

Papers presented:

• Mary Amiti
  Trade, Firms and Wages: Theory and Evidence
• Giorgio Barba Navaretti
  Offshoring and Immigrant Employment: Firm-level Theory  and Evidence
• Claudia Buch
  Real versus Financial Barriers to Multinational Activity
• Karolina Ekholm
  Offshoring and the Onshore Composition of Skills and Tasks
• Peter Egger
  Firm Integration Strategies and Imperfect Labour Markets
• Joseph Francois
  Producer Services, Manufacturing Linkages and Trade
• Ingo Geishecker
  International Outsourcing, Trade, Technology and Job Loss Fears: An empirical Analysis with Micro-level Data
• Richard Kneller
  Offshoot or Offshored? The Location of UK Multinationals
• Liza Jabbour
  'Slicing the Value Chain' Internationally: Empirical Evidence on the Offshoring Strategy by French Firms
• Eiichi Tomiura
  Cross-regional Variations in Offshore Outsourcing Choices: Evidence from Firm-level data
• Richard Upward
  Employment, Job Turnover and the Trade in Producer Services: Firm-level Evidence