Baldwin, Richard E.; Dingel, Jonathan I. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
remote jobs will go overseas? We offer a rough quantification based on two observations: 1) offshore work is trade in … services, and 2) the number of telemigrants is the volume of this trade divided by the average wage. Combining these with … gravity-model estimates, we can roughly predict the number of new telemigrants that would arise from lower barriers to trade …