, fails to find evidence that offshoring contributes to lowering employment. … processes within global value chains. This has been achieved through fragmentation and offshoring. Fostered by the fall in coordination … costs due to information and communication technology developments, offshoring implies that firms increasingly source …

. Buyouts reduce agency problems, which triggers automation, offshoring, and tougher bargaining with labor unions. We show that …

How do offshoring and immigration affect the employment of native workers? What kinds of jobs suffer, or benefit, most … offshoring has no effect on native employment in the aggregate, while the effect of immigration on native employment is positive … looked at the effects of offshoring and immigration separately, we argue that one can gain useful insights by jointly …

This paper investigates the wage and employment effects of offshoring. I use firm-level data and two events in Mexico … as a natural experiment to identify the effects of a fall in the marginal cost of offshoring to Mexico. I find that … domestic wages actually rise at US firms likely to take advantage of this new offshoring opportunity. At the same time …

Existing models of offshoring are not equipped to explain how global production sharing affects the volatility of … economic activity. This paper develops a trade model that can account for why offshoring industries in low wage countries such … as Mexico experience fluctuations in employment that are twice as large as in high wage countries such as the United …