normative effects of offshoring: trade in tasks increases productivity of active firms and improves welfare in the offshoring …Offshoring has gained a significant momentum in recent years. Firm size appears to be the leading factor … differentiating firms that offshore from those that do not. We present a model that blends offshoring, or trade in tasks, with a …

We set up a model of offshoring with heterogeneous producers that captures two empirical regularities of German … offshoring firms. There is selection of larger, more productive firms into offshoring. However, the selection is not sharp, and … offshoring and non-offshoring firms coexist over a wide range of the revenue distribution. An overlap of offshoring and non-offshoring …

We set up a model of offshoring with heterogeneous producers that captures two empirical regularities of German … offshoring firms. There is selection of larger, more productive firms into offshoring. However, the selection is not sharp, and … offshoring and non-offshoring firms coexist over a wide range of the revenue distribution. An overlap of offshoring and …

depends on the productivity and thus the economic success of the firm they are working in, we can study the determinants of …

productivity differences, the model features profit and wage differentials across industries. We use this setting to study the …

productivity differences, the model features profit and wage differentials across industries. We use this setting to study the …

productivity differences, the model features profit and wage differentials across industries. We use this setting to study the …

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. …

We study the role of labor market mismatch in the adjustment to a trade liberalization that results in the offshoring …-intuitively this type of job displacement is actually beneficial for the labor market in the country doing the offshoring. Mismatch …