external shocks (e.g. manufacturing offshoring, oil shocks) impact the labor market along sectoral lines, i.e. they impact … offshoring, affect horizontals or occupations. We find that an occupation spread across many industrial sectors is less volatile …

We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a task- assignment model … with skill heterogeneity. Exact conditions for the following insights are derived. The distributional effect of offshoring … (high-) low-skill-intensive tasks is similar to (unskilled-) skill-biased technology changes, while offshoring medium …

We investigate production offshoring – the relocation of production activities to locations abroad – of European firms …. The analysis employs data from the European Manufacturing Survey (EMS). Offshoring activity is declining across most … of a longer trend which already started in 2003. Despite the general decrease in offshoring, far-shoring to Asia in …

incorporating production offshoring into a North-South model of directed technical change. We �find that if offshoring is present … change in the North. This fi�nding highlights the different implications of offshoring and conventional trade on innovation …. Furthermore, we �find that an increase in the Southern stock of capital reduces offshoring and also leads to skill …

foreign firms’ decision to export much of their local production. At the same time, the offshoring process remains more or …

offshoring of Canadian jobs by U.S. MNCs: those that increase (shrink) employment in Canada tend to exhibit the same pattern …

In this study, we predict a pattern of offshoring and reshoring over the course of economic development. We achieve … this, by extending Grossman and Rossi-Hansberg's (2008) model of offshoring in a simple way by assuming that offshoring … country has two opposing effects on offshoring. On the one hand, it increases the wage rate of workers rendering offshoring …