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 …-level, whereas the second framework relies on differences in relative factor endowments of the two countries involved in offshoring …

This paper explores the welfare consequences of international outsourcing in the presence of resulting environmental … a framework for analyzing the effects of international outsourcing on environment and, ultimately, social welfare in … damage in a three-stage model of North-South trade. In stage 1, outsourcing firms in the North (e.g., United States [US] and …

improvements in the informal sector expand both offshoring and outsourcing, and the developed nation wage must rise. When the …We present a model of offshoring of tasks to a developing nation, which is characterized by a minimum wage formal … informal sector. An improvement in the productivity in performing offshored tasks in the developing country raises offshoring …