The rapid growth of offshoring has sparked a contentious debate over its impact on the U.S. manufacturing sector, which … has recorded steep employment declines yet strong output growth—a fact reconciled by the notable gains in manufacturing … generally are not captured in input cost and import price indexes. To assess the implications of offshoring bias for …

engage in offshoring, and that this leads to gains in output and (measured) productivity, and potential gains in employment … program petition data to micro-data from the U.S. Census Bureau. We exploit this data to assess how offshoring impacts … domestic firm-level aggregate employment, output, wages and productivity. A class of models predicts that more productive firms …

engage in offshoring, and that this leads to gains in output and (measured) productivity, and potential gains in employment …We construct a new linked data set with over one thousand offshoring events by matching Trade Adjustment Assistance … program petition data to micro-data from the U.S. Census Bureau. We exploit this data to assess how offshoring impacts …

-offshorer. After initiating offshoring, firms experience large declines in employment (46.2 per cent), output (38.5 per cent) and …We construct a new linked data set with over one thousand offshoring events by matching Trade Adjustment Assistance … program petition data to confidential data on U.S. firm operations. We exploit these data to assess how offshoring affects …