models by estimating the wage-premium of a foreign takeover. The technology spillover theory predicts a larger wage growth in …

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 …

and the offshoring of tasks. At the firm-level, exporting leads to higher wages and employment, while offshoring of … firms restrict employment to keep wages low, resulting in too many firms that are on average too small. Offshoring on the … markets through exporting and through offshoring, and we show that due to monopsonistic competition our model makes sharply …

premium as well as on international inequality measured in income per head. We compare these effects in a world where trade is …In this paper, we explore the role of trade in differentiated final goods as well offshoring of tasks for inequality … restricted to differentiated final goods with a world with trade in both final goods and production tasks. …

The paper scrutinizes the role of wages and capital flows for competitiveness in the new EU member states in the …

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 …

Technological progress and trade potentially affect wages and employment. Technological progress can make jobs obsolete …

models by estimating the wage-premium of a foreign takeover. The technology spillover theory predicts a larger wage growth in …