We study the relation between the off-shoring of intermediates and services and productivity growth in the Italian … manufacturing industries in 1995-2003. Our results indicate that the off-shoring of intermediates within the same industry ("narrow … off-shoring") is beneficial for productivity growth, while the off-shoring of services is not. We also find that the way …

of offshoring emphasized by Grossman & Rossi-Hansberg (2008) emerges as a vehicle of job creation. Improvements in the … technology of offshoring causes job losses at the extensive margin where ever more tasks are performed abroad, but it also causes … improvements in the technology of offshoring. …

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

This paper sets up a two-country model of offshoring with monopolistically competitive product and monopsonistically … competitive labour markets. In our model, an incentive for offshoring exists even between symmetric countries, because shifting … labour market power. However, offshoring between symmetric countries has negative welfare effects and therefore calls for …

Expanding on a general equilibrium model of offshoring, we analyze the effects of a unilateral emissions tax increase … effect: While the emissions intensity of incumbent non-offshoring firms declines, the cleanest firms start offshoring …. Moreover, offshoring firms become dirtier, induced by a reduction in the foreign effective emissions tax in general equilibrium …

I study the effects of service offshoring on white-collar employment, using highly disaggregated occupational data for … service offshoring is skill-biased, because it raises employment among high-skilled occupations and lowers employment among … medium- and low-skilled ones. Within each skill group, service offshoring penalizes tradeable occupations and tends to …

affect the volume of offshoring between U.S. companies and their affiliates. The suggested argument is stronger for the …