by the cost of task trade. Comparing orders of magnitude we conclude that offshoring between similar countries only has a … small positive effect on the managerial wage premium, compared to offshoring between countries with a different relative …

The policy debate views offshoring as job destruction. Theoretical models of offshoring mostly assume full employment …-monotonic adjustment: Early stages of offshoring always lead to higher unemployment, while later stages may entail net job creation. We …

integration)? Which firms choose to expand their sourcing activities across the national border (offshoring)? This letter provides … vertical integration and of offshoring tend to have been more productive ex ante than firms choosing not to do so. This finding …

We offer a theoretical explanation and empirical evidence for a positive link between increased offshoring and … mainly focuses on the retraining of workers after a direct job displacement through offshoring. To establish a link between … offshoring and on-the-job training, we introduce an individual skill upgrading margin into the small-open-economy version of the …