How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it … possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation … continuum of tasks in each sector and we augment it to include immigrants with heterogeneous productivity in tasks. We use this …

multi-product firms, offshoring, intra-firm trade and firm export market dynamics …

We estimate how offshoring and exporting affect wages by skill type. Our data match the population of Danish workers to … countries. Our data reveal new stylized facts about offshoring activities at the firm level, and allow us to both condition our … identification on within-job-spell changes and construct instruments for offshoring and exporting that are time varying and …

Ricardian model of offshoring. A unique final good is produced by combining a skilled and an unskilled product, each produced …-scarce East. Profit maximization determines both the extent of offshoring and technological progress. Offshoring induces skill … relevant case, starting from low levels, an increase in offshoring opportunities triggers a transition with falling real wages …

Assessing the productivity gains from multinational production has been a vital topic of economic research. Positive … aggregate productivity gains are often attributed to within-firm productivity improvement; however, an alternative, less … in determining the aggregate productivity gains by exploring their distinct predictions on the distributions of domestic …

well as by the firm's productivity. Our results suggest that contractual frictions play an important role in shaping the …

integration of commodity markets (i.e., free trade) and international integration of factor markets (i.e., offshoring). In a two …-country, two-good, two-factor model we show that free trade and offshoring have opposite effects on rich-country workers. Free … trade hurts rich-country workers, while reducing the volatility of their wages; by contrast, offshoring benefits them, while …