In this paper we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage, employment and … displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring, organizing our discussion around the three key elements … of offshoring: that it involves intermediate inputs for production (vs. final goods for consumption); that it involves …

. -- Macroeconomic Stability ; Inflation ; Unemployment ; the Environment ; Employer of Last Resort ; Basic Income Guarantee …

improvements in the technology of offshoring. -- offshoring ; trade in tasks ; unemployment ; search and matching …We show that in a Ricardo-Viner-type trade model with unemployment due to search and matching the productivity effect … of offshoring emphasized by Grossman & Rossi-Hansberg (2008) emerges as a vehicle of job creation. Improvements in the …

-monotonic adjustment: Early stages of offshoring always lead to higher unemployment, while later stages may entail net job creation. We … highlight this potential through numerical simulations. -- Offshoring ; Trade in Tasks ; Unemployment ; Non-monotonicity …The policy debate views offshoring as job destruction. Theoretical models of offshoring mostly assume full employment …