premium as well as on international inequality measured in income per head. We compare these effects in a world where trade is … restricted to differentiated final goods with a world with trade in both final goods and production tasks. -- offshoring …In this paper, we explore the role of trade in differentiated final goods as well offshoring of tasks for inequality …

income distribution in a world where trade is restricted to final goods. We then allow for trade in production tasks, driven … endowment. -- Offshoring ; Economies of Scale ; Income Distribution ; International Inequality … production wages, although the pattern of task trade and managerial wages are indeterminate. For differences in relative …

offshoring. -- Heterogeneous Firms ; Income Inequality …) can offshore routine tasks to a low-wage host country. The most productive firms self-select into offshoring, and the … impact on welfare in the source country can be positive or negative, depending on the share of firms engaged in offshoring …

offshoring. -- offshoring ; heterogeneous firms ; income inequality …) can offshore routine tasks to a low-wage host country. The most productive firms self-select into offshoring, and the … impact on welfare in the source country can be positive or negative, depending on the share of firms engaged in offshoring …

We investigate the cyclicality of real wages and income using individual data for the UK over the 1991-2008 period. By … recessions than in expansions for top-incomes. We also show that real wages and income are roughly a cyclical for low wage and … paying special attention to the heterogeneity among different earnings and income groups, we document that individuals at the …

monthly frequency of regular wage adjustments almost doubled, while the distribution of changes in regular wages morphed from …

impact of transitions out of and back into formal employment on wages earned in the formal sector and the effect of early …

terms of negative skewness and high kurtosis, with these deviations varying with income and along the worker's life cycle. A … employment, we also study the impact of transitions out of and back into formal employment on wages earned in the formal sector …

) can offshore routine tasks to a low-wage host country. The most productive firms self-select into offshoring, and the … impact on welfare in the source country can be positive or negative, depending on the share of firms engaged in offshoring … among entrepreneurs is higher with offshoring than in autarky. All results hold in a model extension with firm-level rent …