firms to leave the market, thereby affecting aggregate productivity. Since wage and productivity responses are endogenous …, our model is well suited to study the impacts of trade integration on aggregate productivity and factor prices. Using … Canada-U.S. interregional trade data, we first estimate a system of theory-based gravity equations under the general …

change in competition. Higher substitutability increases welfare, output and productivity because resources shift towards the …

consumers has inspired the development of a new brand of trade theory, the theory of heterogeneous firms and trade. The …

studies conducted so far focus alone on the productivity effects of offshoring at the firm level. Here I carry out the …. On the other hand, positive effects on the growth rate of productivity are found as a result of both types of offshoring …First moves towards a real understanding of offshoring date back to very recent times. In particular for Japan, the …

international sourcing of materials depends on a firm's productivity and the availability of local services. These predictions are …

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 …