We set up a general equilibrium model, in which offshoring to a low-wage country can lead to job polarisation in the … pay wages that are positively linked to their profits by a rent-sharing mechanism. Offshoring involves fixed and task … variable offshoring costs. A reduction in those variable costs increases offshoring at the intensive and at the extensive …

We set up a general equilibrium model, in which offshoring to a low-wage country can lead to job polarisation in the … pay wages that are positively linked to their profits by a rent-sharing mechanism. Offshoring involves fixed and task … variable offshoring costs. A reduction in those variable costs increases offshoring at the intensive and at the extensive …

labor market effects of offshoring. While theory focuses on one-sector or two-sector models, empirical studies exploit … variation in offshoring across a large number of industries, typically including a linear offshoring term in the analysis … analyze the effects of offshoring across a continuum of industries with different shares of offshorable tasks that are linked …

empirischen Praxis bei der Analyse der Arbeitsmarktwirkungen von Offshoring. Während sich die Theorie auf Ein- oder Zwei …-Sektor-Modelle konzentriert, nutzen empirische Studien zur Identifikation des Offshoring-Effektes die Variation in der Offshoring-Intensität über … eine große Anzahl von Branchen hinweg. Üblicherweise wird dabei ein linearer Offshoring-Term in der empirischen Analyse …

In this paper, we incorporate offshoring of labor-intensive goods in a model with multi-product firms, and explore its … improvements in offshoring opportunities can affect the geographic organization of a firm and its product range. Multi … prospects for offshoring. We identify the cannibalization effect as an important transmission mechanism within multi …

the equilibrium with an informal sector. -- offshoring ; informal sector ; maquiladoras ; trade and labor markets ; Mexico …

In this paper, we explore the role of trade in differentiated final goods as well offshoring of tasks for inequality … restricted to differentiated final goods with a world with trade in both final goods and production tasks. -- offshoring …