. 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 …

This paper sets up a two-country model of offshoring with monopolistically competitive product and monopsonistically … competitive labour markets. In our model, an incentive for offshoring exists even between symmetric countries, because shifting … labour market power. However, offshoring between symmetric countries has negative welfare effects and therefore calls for …

into offshoring. Given a shock that lowers offshoring costs, the theory predicts that domestic wages rise at firms that …Offshoring of US jobs is controversial. Critics fear that offshoring will lead to lost jobs and lower domestic wages at … offshore relative to domestic wages at firms that do not. The theory also predicts that domestic employment could rise or fall …

The share of low-income countries in global exports nearly tripled between 1990 and 2015, driven largely by the rapid … emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower-income … countries could raise income inequality in Europe and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade …

production processes of 22 high-income countries. Using China’s productivity as the exogenous variation, the main result – based … significant. With the preferred estimation, a one per cent increase in the use of intermediates imported from China does, on … average, lead to an increase in productivity by 0.65 per cent among high-income countries, and by 0.40 per cent in the US …

wages to increase beyond productivity increases. The augmented Balassa-Samuelson model is extended to trace cyclical …

increases from the tradable to the non-tradable sector and to cause real wages to increase beyond productivity increases. Panel …

Recent empirical studies have been searching for evidence on and driving forces for offshoring. Frequently, this has … competing with the role of multilateral trade resistance. Our results support evidence for offshoring activities across Europe … rest of the world. …

rest of the world. -- international trade ; gravity model ; offshoring ; panel data ; European Union …Recent empirical studies have been searching for evidence on and driving forces for offshoring. Frequently, this has … competing with the role of multilateral trade resistance. Our results support evidence for offshoring activities across Europe …