firm heterogeneity offers new tools for analyzing the effects of offshoring on the employment dynamics within an individual … in the offshoring nation increases, the overall sector employment may increase or decrease. Policies promoting free trade …Offshoring has gained a significant momentum in recent years. Firm size appears to be the leading factor …

, little is known about the impact of institutional quality on offshoring. This is surprising, given that offshoring has become … between institutional quality and offshoring. The results suggest that weak institutions are negatively related to offshoring … in general and to offshoring of R&D-intensive goods in particular. Furthermore, firms that are able to establish long …

We study the incidence of offshoring, or trade in tasks, on firms' productivity and on manufacturing employment in a … has a Hick's neutral technological edge over the other, tasks in which the productivity edge more than offsets offshoring … costs get offshored, giving rise to global disintegration of the production process. Offshoring raises firms' productivity …