We set up a general equilibrium model, in which offshoring to a low-wage country can lead to job polarisation in the … pay wages that are positively linked to their profits by a rent-sharing mechanism. Offshoring involves fixed and task … variable offshoring costs. A reduction in those variable costs increases offshoring at the intensive and at the extensive …

) 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 …

This paper sets up a two-country model of offshoring with monopolistically competitive product and monopsonistically … competitive labour markets. In our model, an incentive for offshoring exists even between symmetric countries, because shifting … labour market power. However, offshoring between symmetric countries has negative welfare effects and therefore calls for …

markets through exporting and through offshoring, and we show that due to monopsonistic competition our model makes sharply … 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 …

multinationals, are less likely to rely on imported or internally provided services. -- international trade ; services ; off-shoring …

) 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 …

We study ex post outsourcing of production in an imperfectly discriminating contest, interpreted here as a research … tournament or a procurement contest for being awarded some production contract. We find that the possibility of outsourcing …, outsourcing reduces the procurement costs of inducing a given level of effort if the contest organizer can collect entry fees …