fixed offshoring costs. In the skill-abundant country, high-productivity firms offshore a larger range of labor …-intensive inputs to the labor-abundant countries than low-productivity firms. Differently from the traditional versions of factor … intensity across firms that is positively correlated with firm productivity. Using French firm-level data for the years 1996 to …

fixed offshoring costs. In the skill-abundant country, high-productivity firms offshore a larger range of labor …-intensive inputs to the labor-abundant countries than low-productivity firms. Differently from the traditional versions of factor … intensity across firms that is positively correlated with firm productivity. Using French firm-level data for the years 1996 to …

We study the incidence of offshoring, or trade in tasks, on firms’ productivity and on manufacturing employment in a … has a Hick’s neutral technological edge over the other, tasks in which the productivity edge more than offsets offshoring … costs get offshored, giving rise to global disintegration of the production process. Offshoring raises firms’ productivity …