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 …

input supplier (vertical integration vs. outsourcing), as well as the location of intermediate input production (offshore vs … intensity, but favors outsourcing in industries of high sourcing intensity. Moreover, we find that productivity boosts … offshoring throughout all industries, with the effect increasing monotonically in the sourcing intensity. Our results lend strong …