Bergin, Paul R.; Feenstra, Robert C.; Hanson, Gordon H. - In: American Economic Review 99 (2009) 4, pp. 1664-71
This paper studies the second-moment properties of offshoring, the arrangement whereby firms carry out particular stages of production abroad. It documents a new empirical regularity: maquiladora industries in Mexico that are associated with US offshoring experience fluctuations in employment...