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 …

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 …