In this paper we confirm the existence of improvements of firm productivity when domestic upstream and downstream firms …, help us confirm that these inter-industry productivity improvements can also be generated form a quasi-trade liberalization … event. Upstream linkages are the dominant source of these productivity benefits and are reaped mainly from medium-low tech …

domestic labor force at the sector-level. In order to better elucidate the offshoring employment relationship, this paper … condition where firms pay a real wage that exceeds the market clearing level and varies with productivity; (ii) an open economy … production-side shock that changes firms' offshoring decision can influence the local economy and its labor market. …