depends on the productivity and thus the economic success of the firm they are working in, we can study the determinants of …

labor market effects of offshoring. While theory focuses on one-sector or two-sector models, empirical studies exploit … variation in offshoring across a large number of industries, typically including a linear offshoring term in the analysis …. Thereby, these studies implicitly assume a monotonic relationship between offshoring and labor market outcomes and ignore …

) can offshore routine tasks to a low-wage host country. The most productive firms self-select into offshoring, and the … impact on welfare in the source country can be positive or negative, depending on the share of firms engaged in offshoring … among entrepreneurs is higher with offshoring than in autarky. All results hold in a model extension with firm-level rent …

markets through exporting and through offshoring, and we show that due to monopsonistic competition our model makes sharply … and the offshoring of tasks. At the firm-level, exporting leads to higher wages and employment, while offshoring of … productivity, and firms with low productivities exit the market. This reduces the monopsony distortion present in autarky, where …

In this paper, we explore the role of trade in differentiated final goods as well offshoring of tasks for inequality …

depends on the productivity and thus the economic success of the firm they are working in, we can study the determinants of …

The study proves evidence of five new empirical facts on the impact of services offshoring on local labour markets …. First, services offshoring increases average employment and wages within local labour markets, much more so in the … manufacturing industry than in the services one. Second, positive effects are both on firms directly offshoring services and on non-offshoring …