We discuss the effects of low-skill offshoring on the endogenous schooling decision of workers along with the potential …-deteriorating effects of offshoring. As a result, we aim at restoring welfare by increasing the opportunity cost of staying low-skill. In … offshoring that befall those in the lowest end of the skill ladder …

respect to intermediate import prices to theory uncovers evidence of a production complementarity between workers and … the findings add to widely expressed, growing concerns about poor productivity performance relating to skills and to …

This paper studies the relationship between immigration and offshoring by examining whether an influx of foreign … of immigrants into a municipality reduces firm-level offshoring at both the extensive and intensive margins. The fact … that immigration and offshoring are substitutes has important policy implications, since restrictions on one may encourage …

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

In this paper we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage, employment and … displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring, organizing our discussion around the three key elements … of offshoring: that it involves intermediate inputs for production (vs. final goods for consumption); that it involves …

explanation is at odds with the sequence of observed facts. We propose and model an alternative scenario in which offshoring …