setting. Reductions in the amount of resources required in the offshoring process usually decrease employment, though the …This paper analyzes a North-South trade model with costly offshoring and equilibrium unemployment due to union wage … opposite can happen at a low initial level of offshoring activity. If additional offshoring leads to a fall in the scale of …

, little is known about the impact of institutional quality on offshoring. This is surprising, given that offshoring has become … between institutional quality and offshoring. The results suggest that weak institutions are negatively related to offshoring … in general and to offshoring of R&D-intensive goods in particular. Furthermore, firms that are able to establish long …