reshoring or offshoring. When the demand elasticity rises with price, two policy instruments generally are needed to achieve …

U.S. manufacturing employment. Our findings suggest that offshoring by multinationals was a key driver of the observed …

be performed at home or abroad, but offshoring entails costs that vary by task. In equilibrium, the tasks with the … highest offshoring costs may not be traded. Among the remainder, those with the relatively higher offshoring costs are …

tradable tasks and use it to study how falling costs of offshoring affect factor prices in the source country. We identify a …

Outsourced workers experience large wage declines, yet domestic outsourcing may raise aggregate productivity. To study … wage premia. Second, outsourcing raises output at the firm level. Third, contractors endogenously locate at the bottom of … the job ladder, implying that outsourced workers receive lower wages. Using firm-level instruments for outsourcing and …

Using the universe of large Canadian manufacturing firms in 1988 and 1996, we investigate to what extent outsourcing … outsourcing less likely; (ii) complementarities between the investments of the buyer and the seller are also associated with less … outsourcing; (iii) property rights predictions on the link between investment intensities and optimal ownership are only supported …

relevant prevalence of outsourcing and foreign direct investment …

We study the determinants of the extent of outsourcing and of direct foreign investment in an industry in which …