equilibrium where input sub-bundles may be traded (offshoring). The model allows for several goods and two fragments, produced …. I also explore trade policy implications and compare offshoring to migration. …

reshoring or offshoring. When the demand elasticity rises with price, two policy instruments generally are needed to achieve …

of offshoring emphasized by Grossman & Rossi-Hansberg (2008) emerges as a vehicle of job creation. Improvements in the … technology of offshoring causes job losses at the extensive margin where ever more tasks are performed abroad, but it also causes … improvements in the technology of offshoring. …

In this paper, we explore the role of trade in differentiated final goods as well offshoring of tasks for inequality …

different productivity levels choose different ownership structures and supplier locations, i.e., they choose different …

relevant prevalence of outsourcing and foreign direct investment …

We study the determinants of the extent of outsourcing and of direct foreign investment in an industry in which …

We study the determinants of the location of sub-contracted activity in a general equilibrium model of outsourcing and … trade. We model outsourcing as an activity that requires search for a partner and relationship-specific investments that are … governed by incomplete contracts. The extent of international outsourcing depends inter alia on the thickness of the domestic …

This paper investigates empirically the link between international outsourcing and the skill structure of labour demand … in the United Kingdom. It is the first detailed study of this issue for the UK. Outsourcing is calculated using import … factor demands, our main results show that international outsourcing has had a strong negative impact on the demand for …