How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it … possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation … model to jointly analyze the impact of a reduction in the costs of offshoring and of the costs of immigrating to the U …

This paper studies the relationship between immigration and offshoring by examining whether an influx of foreign … of immigrants into a municipality reduces firm-level offshoring at both the extensive and intensive margins. The fact … that immigration and offshoring are substitutes has important policy implications, since restrictions on one may encourage …

Technological advance and improvements in communication technologies have facilitated the offshoring of jobs worldwide … countries that contain developing country labor content. We demonstrate that this pattern of offshoring can harbor a pro …

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 …

This paper presents a theoretical model about the optimal choice for a firm between offshoring and hiring immigrant … optimal for firms to produce low quality products offshoring the production abroad, while intermediate quality level products …