This paper analyzes a North-South trade model with costly offshoring and equilibrium unemployment due to union wage … setting. Reductions in the amount of resources required in the offshoring process usually decrease employment, though the … opposite can happen at a low initial level of offshoring activity. If additional offshoring leads to a fall in the scale of …

In this paper, we provide first empirical evidence on the effect of outsourcing on union wages using linked employer … industries with high outsourcing intensities. The finding applies to both firm- and sector-level agreements. Hence, outsourcing … appears to deteriorate the bargaining position of unions. Outsourcing is not found to have a negative effect on the wages of …

We analyze the effect of outsourcing on union wages in a simple two-stage game between a firm and a union. In contrast …. -- Collective Bargaining ; International Outsourcing ; Union Wages …

-level trade flows with firm-specific instrumental variables based on world demand and supply shocks. Both export and offshoring … shocks have a positive effect on wages. Exports increase wages for all occupational categories while offshoring has … elasticity of wages with respect to exports and offshoring is higher than in firms with no collective bargaining. Wage gains …