arm’s length. The model further implies that firms are more likely to offshore when frictions in the provision of services …

We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both pro- duction efficiency and product … quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management prac- tices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find … inputs, and imported inputs from more advanced countries. The structural estimates indicate that management is important for …

The study proves evidence of five new empirical facts on the impact of services offshoring on local labour markets …. First, services offshoring increases average employment and wages within local labour markets, much more so in the … manufacturing industry than in the services one. Second, positive effects are both on firms directly offshoring services and on non …

In this paper we model the demand for immigrants as a trade-off native voters face between having services, produced by … services. Assimilated immigrants take on skilled jobs. At the political level natives choose the number of immigrants that can … be allowed, given some fixed price for services. We show that, at the assumed price, it is never optimal for natives to …