workforce. The effects off-shoring on wages and job composition are also studied. That of low-skill and high-skill tasks, not … ; hollowing out ; skill biased technical change ; terms of trade ; off-shoring …

shares of high-skill as well as low-skill workers in the total workforce. The effects of off-shoring on wages and job … composition are also studied. Off-shoring of low-skill and high-skill tasks, not middle-skill tasks, is shown to contribute … technical change ; terms of trade ; off-shoring …

program petition data to micro-data from the U.S. Census Bureau. We exploit this data to assess how offshoring impacts … engage in offshoring, and that this leads to gains in output and (measured) productivity, and potential gains in employment … and wages, in the remaining domestic activities of the offshoring firm. Consistent with these models, we find that …

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 … offshoring involves a fixed cost, we find that the average offshoring firm is larger and more productive than the average non …

offshoring towards lower-income countries such as Mexico has been proposed as a potential driver of this decline. Our analysis … provides a unique and new approach to address the question of whether trade and offshoring have impacted the occupational …