How do offshoring and immigration affect the employment of native workers? What kinds of jobs suffer, or benefit, most … looked at the effects of offshoring and immigration separately, we argue that one can gain useful insights by jointly …. Third, we use the model to draw systematic predictions about the effects of immigration and offshoring on native workers and …

A simple model of offshoring is used to integrate the complex gallery of results that exist in the theoretical … offshoring/fragmentation literature. The paper depicts offshoring as 'shadow migration' and shows that this allows … conditions are provided). We show that offshoring requires modification of the four HO theorems, so econometricians who ignore …

, intermediaries - called outsourcing agencies - have emerged in these markets. This paper shows that agencies signal to employers that …

This paper investigates the impact of outsourcing on sectoral reallocation in the U.S. over the period 1948 … more than 90% of its output is an intermediate input to other firms, and it is where most of the service outsourcing … of the input-output structure, which is mostly due to professional and business services outsourcing, accounts for 36% of …

assume higher fixed costs under outsourcing and a firm-specific production function. We use detailed French firm-level data …

country of origin and distinguish between firm-level outsourcing of final versus intermediate goods. Results indicate that … China is different from both other low-wage and OECD countries. Industry-level import competition and firm-level outsourcing … Belgian firm survival, while firm-level outsourcing of finished goods to China even increased firm's probability of survival …

outsourcing in export processing trade. We exploit the coexistence of two regulatory export processing regimes in China, which …