We show that in a Ricardo-Viner-type trade model with unemployment due to search and matching the productivity effect … improvements in the technology of offshoring. -- offshoring ; trade in tasks ; unemployment ; search and matching …

. We develop a model of task trade that allows for equilibrium unemployment. In this model, there are two margins of … adjustment. At the extensive margin, moving tasks offshore destroys jobs. At the intensive margin, due to higher productivity of …-monotonic adjustment: Early stages of offshoring always lead to higher unemployment, while later stages may entail net job creation. We …

We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a task-assignment model …

We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a taskassignment model …