frictional labor market with equilibrium unemployment due to costly matching, we demonstrate that under these same conditions …We revisit Grossman and Rossi-Hansberg's (2008) famous result, that under certain conditions offshoring of low … Rybczynski-type reallocation of factors to absorb offshoring-induced job displacement is ruled out. We allow for simultaneous …

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 …

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 … technology of offshoring causes job losses at the extensive margin where ever more tasks are performed abroad, but it also causes …

offshoring on the labor market can substantially deviate from standard neoclassical conclusions when search frictions hinder … efficient assortative matching between firms with heterogeneous tasks and workers with heterogeneous skills. Our key hypothesis … exploiting offshoring. It implies that automation (offshoring) may reduce (raise) employment by lengthening (shortening …

unemployment. If the jobs performed by domestic workers can be easily substituted by imports, then globalization reduces wages and … increases unemployment. In this situation, in the absence of any government intervention globalization not only reduces the … welfare of workers but could reduce social welfare as well. Both unemployment benefits and severance payments can protect …

Faktorausstattung zweier Länder basiert. Das zweite Kapitel liefert eine Theorie zu Offshoring unter Imitationsrisiko. Diese Theorie … 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 …

unemployment decreases upon offshoring in the presence of perfect intersectoral labor mobility. If, as a result, labor moves to the … intersectoral labor mobility, unemployment in the offshoring sector can rise, with an unambiguous unemployment reduction in the non-offshoring … unemployment in this sector rising. -- Trade ; offshoring ; search ; unemployment …