not accounted for by differences in workers' characteristics, occupations, nor for differences in the employers' locations …

This paper exploits a unique offshoring survey to show that firms continue domestic production of the same goods they …. Firms' reactions also motivate a new offshoring measure - produced- good imports - that is readily observed in most firm …

integration of commodity markets (i.e., free trade) and international integration of factor markets (i.e., offshoring). In a two …-country, two-good, two-factor model we show that free trade and offshoring have opposite effects on rich-country workers. Free … trade hurts rich-country workers, while reducing the volatility of their wages; by contrast, offshoring benefits them, while …

This paper examines the relationship between the share of employment potentially affected by offshoring and economic … statistical association between the share of both "non-clerical" and clerical occupations potentially affected by offshoring and …

tradable tasks and use it to study how falling costs of offshoring affect factor prices in the source country. We identify a …

correspond to an increase in outsourcing by multinationals from the United States and other Northern countries, is to shift …

We identify "first generation" statistics to measure offshoring as the share of imported intermediate inputs in costs … demand and relative wages due to offshoring. A limitation of these statistics is that they cannot be used to measure the … impact on real wages, and for that purpose, we need price-based measures of offshoring. More recently, "second generation …

effects of globalization, with offshoring to low wage countries and imports both associated with wage declines for US workers … offshoring to China has also contributed to wage declines among US workers. However, the role of trade is quantitatively much … more important. We also explore the impact of trade and offshoring on labor force participation rates. While offshoring to …

Ricardian model of offshoring. A unique final good is produced by combining a skilled and an unskilled product, each produced …-scarce East. Profit maximization determines both the extent of offshoring and technological progress. Offshoring induces skill … relevant case, starting from low levels, an increase in offshoring opportunities triggers a transition with falling real wages …