We link industry-level data on trade and offshoring with individual-level worker data from the Current Population …

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 …

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

Does the offshoring of production degrade or enhance the innovative capabilities of manufacturing firms? We contribute … products to China. We find causal evidence that offshoring impacts both the level and nature of innovation. In the technologies … evidence of a second-order positive effect of offshoring on the levels of innovation--particularly product innovation--in other …

than 2000 models of 197 car brands headquartered in 23 countries. While offshoring in the car industry has risen from 2000 … to 2016, the top five offshoring brands account for half the car assembly relocated to low-wage countries. We show that …

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