core functions provided the cost of outsourcing is not too high. In this paper, we build a model to show how contraction in … out to say, India (abroad). We identify the conditions under which switching from pure domestic production to outsourcing …

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. -- offshoring ; trade in tasks ; unemployment ; search and matching …

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 …