factor. Offshoring jobs abroad may change the composition of domestic firms and employment and thus reduce union density … workers and firms in Denmark (1999-2017), which allows us to measure the exogenous threat of offshoring at the firm-level and … the unionization decisions of individual workers. The findings show that the threat of offshoring reduces unionization …

international sourcing of materials depends on a firm’s productivity and the availability of local services. These predictions are … multinationals, are less likely to rely on imported or internally provided services. -- International trade ; services ; off-shoring …

structurally estimate the key parameters of our model to construct counterfactual size, productivity and welfare distributions … a lesser extent large firms) and the main winners are small firms. -- firm size ; productivity ; labor regulation …

unemployment decreases upon offshoring in the presence of perfect intersectoral labor mobility. If, as a result, labor moves to the … intersectoral labor mobility, unemployment in the offshoring sector can rise, with an unambiguous unemployment reduction in the non-offshoring … unemployment in this sector rising. -- Trade ; offshoring ; search ; unemployment …

offshoring. This result can be understood to arise from the productivity enhancing (cost reducing) effect of offshoring. If the …In this paper, in order to study the impact of offshoring on sectoral and economywide rates of unemployment, we … search cost is identical in the two sectors, or even if the search cost is higher in the sector which experiences offshoring …

negative causal impact on employment in offshoring firms. The effect is positive and large for productivity, and weak evidence …). It turns out that, compared to non-offshoring firms, firms that relocated activities were larger and more productive, and … relocate, and this points to self-selection of "better" firms into offshoring. This finding is in line with results from recent …

Offshoring is generally believed to be productivity-enhancing and this belief is underpinned by economic theory. This … productivity. Estimating the impact of materials and business services offshoring on productivity growth with industry-level data … show that there is no productivity effect of materials offshoring, while business services offshoring leads to productivity …