We set up a model of offshoring with heterogeneous producers that captures two empirical regularities of German … offshoring firms. There is selection of larger, more productive firms into offshoring. However, the selection is not sharp, and … offshoring and non-offshoring firms coexist over a wide range of the revenue distribution. An overlap of offshoring and non-offshoring …

fixed offshoring costs. In the skill-abundant country, high-productivity firms offshore a larger range of labor …-proportions trade theory, Heckscher-Ohlin forces operate at the within-industry level, leading to endogenous variation in skill … 2007, we provide empirical support for the factor proportions channel through which offshoring to labor-abundant countries …

In this paper we explore the role that demand uncertainty plays for the offshoring decision, and the role that … offshoring plays for domestic volatility of employment. Offshoring is modeled as in Antràs & Helpman (2004), but we assume … firm's employment decision in its domestic and offshore production. In this environment, offshoring is driven by …

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

We propose a two-country monopolistic competition model of business service offshoring that captures the advantage ….e., domestic service provision or service offshoring). It is shown that the utilization of communication networks induces a … dramatic change in industrial structure due to entrepreneurial relocation (i.e., service offshoring) to take advantage of time …