offshoring on the labor market can substantially deviate from standard neoclassical conclusions when search frictions hinder … exploiting offshoring. It implies that automation (offshoring) may reduce (raise) employment by lengthening (shortening …

We discuss the effects of offshoring on the labor market in a matching model with endogenous adjustment of educational … skills. We carry out a comparative statics analysis and show that offshoring leads to a restructuring of the economy through … skill-biased technical change (SBTC) where overall welfare is improved. In a policy exercise we show that, if offshoring …

evidence that suggests that the increase in non-routine cognitive workplaces is linked to the growth in outsourcing of …

Domestic outsourcing has grown substantially in developed countries over the past two decades. This paper addresses the …

important factor from the 1990s onwards. -- wage inequality ; polarization ; occupational tasks ; offshoring ; RIF-regressions …

-level imports by country of origin and further distinguish between firm-level offshoring of final versus intermediate goods. Results … competition has no effect on firm survival, while offshoring of finished goods to China actually increases firms' probability of … in low-tech Belgian manufacturing over our period of analysis. Offshoring to China further accounts for a small but …

We present a dynamic model where the probability of outsourcing production is increasing in the firm’s expectation of … outsourcing. No prior study has been able to provide such causal evidence. Our results are robust to the inclusion of detailed … characteristics of the firms as well as firm fixed effects. -- Outsourcing ; technological change …