between offshoring and exports. We model a world consisting of many advanced countries that trade differentiated goods among …

develop an endogenous growth model to study the long run consequences of offshoring with firm heterogeneity and … incomplete contracts. In so doing, we model offshoring as the geographical fragmentation of a firm’s production chain between a … possibility of offshoring has favorable implications for economic growth. Yet, offshoring induced by a higher bargaining power of …

In this paper, we assess the extent of offshoring in the Italian manufacturing industries, and we study how this … phenomenon is affecting the skill composition of employment. Measuring offshoring using the import-use matrices of input …-output tables, firstly we estimate the impact of offshoring on the general level of employment, and we don’t find any significant …

Services offshoring is on the rise. Due to recent innovations in communication technologies, many services that used to … over the past decades, indicating under-exploitation of the potential for services offshoring. To understand this … establishes that the level of services offshoring is lower in industries with greater offshoring potentials, as captured by their …