) 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 …

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 …

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. -- offshoring …

) 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 …