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 …

trade shifts the distribution towards higher average productivity due to entry and exit of firms. These models ignore the … possibility that freer trade also alters the firm-size distribution via international firm migration (offshoring); firms must, by … assumption, produce in their 'birth nation.' We show that when firms are allowed to switch locations, new productivity effects …

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. …

marginal and average firm productivity are reversed in our model, yet there are significant gains from trade arising from … workers at home and abroad. In an extension to our baseline model, we illustrate that offshoring production from the high …

We analyze the effects of offshoring of intermediate input production on labour demand in Sweden, distinguishing … that offshoring -- in particular to low-income countries -- tends to shift labour demand away from workers with an … intermediate level of education. Offshoring to high-income countries, which is the largest component of overall offshoring, does …

paper is motivated by recent evidence that trade has greatly expanded on the extensive margin (aka fragmentation, offshoring …