We propose an endogenous growth model with offshoring to investigate its effects on product innovation and growth in … the country of origin. Offshoring is associated with reduced feedback from offshored plants to domestic labs as well as … static decision to relocate plants but not R&D. Hence, offshoring may be chosen by firms when it damages the growth rate of …

-way offshoring/trade-in-tasks. …

rise in offshoring. To analyze the relationship between globalization, offshoring and relative wages, we develop a general … equilibrium model of trade and offshoring. This reveals that globalization and offshoring have two opposing effects on relative … inequality. The result is a bell-shaped relationship between wage inequality and offshoring when globalization is driven by …

A simple model of offshoring, which depicts offshoring as ‘shadow migration,’ permits straightforward derivation of … necessary and sufficient conditions for the effects on wages, prices, production and trade. We show that offshoring requires … modification of the four classic international trade theorems, so econometricians who ignore offshoring might reject the Heckscher …

Trade theory consists of a portfolio of models. What elements might be useful in modeling the offshoring of white … characteristics of offshoring, and then use those models to identify the effects of technological or institutional changes which allow … offshoring of white-collar services to occur. …

The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be … suitability of a task for offshoring and the associated skill level. Accordingly, wage effects of offshoring can be very … on offshoring. Our main results suggest that in partial equilibrium, wage effects of offshoring are fairly modest but far …

paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in US manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000, using … instrumental variables estimation to address the potential endogeneity of offshoring. It finds that service offshoring has a …. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the magnitude is smaller accounting for approximately …