destroyed/created due to offshoring. Moreover, we do not find an effect on labour productivity, since the negative effect on …This paper analyses the effect of offshoring (i.e., the relocation of activities previously performed in-house to … foreign countries) on various firm outcomes (domestic employment, production, and productivity). It uses data from the …

. The second chapter provides a theory of offshoring under imitation risk that explains optimal dynamic adjustments of firms … Faktorausstattung zweier Länder basiert. Das zweite Kapitel liefert eine Theorie zu Offshoring unter Imitationsrisiko. Diese Theorie … chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but …

. The second chapter provides a theory of offshoring under imitation risk that explains optimal dynamic adjustments of firms … chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … similar frameworks. In the first framework the profitability of offshoring is based on increasing returns to scale on the task …

German and Austrian firm productivity. Unique matching of data from 1994 to 2003 suggests that tarif reductions raise parent … firm productivity significantly. A ten percentage point decrease in tarif rates can lead to total factor productivity gains …

We incorporate trade in tasks à la Grossman and Rossi-Hansberg (2008) into a small open economy version of the theory … of firm organization of Marin and Verdier (2012) to examine how offshoring affects the way firms organize. We show that … the offshoring of production tasks leads firms to reorganize with a more decentralized management, improving the …

We incorporate trade in tasks l a Grossman and Rossi-Hansberg (2008) into the international trade theory of fi rm … we show that the data are consistent with the theory. We find that o ffshoring of production tasks leads firms to … reorganize to more decentralized management improving competitiveness of offshoring firms. We show further that offshoring of …

We incorporate trade in tasks à la Grossman and Rossi-Hansberg (2008) into a small open economy version of the theory … of firm organization of Marin and Verdier (2012) to examine how offshoring affects the way firms organize. We show that … the offshoring of production tasks leads firms to reorganize with a more decentralized management, improving the …