The study identified industries with a large share of occupations subject to foreign outsourcing of services, or service offshoring, in 1994 and 1995. Then it compared employment trends in these industries to those observed in other industries between two periods: 1987 to 1995 and 1996 to 2006.
The study found no evidence that industries with a relatively large share of occupations subject to service offshoring in the mid-1990s had recently undergone a deceleration in employment growth relative to other industries.
Furthermore, there was little evidence that employment in these occupations had grown at a slower rate in industries that experienced substantial increases in service offshoring to non-Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries than in similar occupations located in other industries.
