The impact of offshoring on average labor productivity is investigated on a panel of 17 manufacturing sectors between … 1989-2006. As proxies for offshoring, we use imports and import penetration, defined as the ratio of imports to output. We …

Existing models of offshoring are not equipped to explain how global production sharing affects the volatility of … economic activity. This paper develops a trade model that can account for why offshoring industries in low wage countries such … States. We argue that a key to explaining this outcome is that the extensive margin of offshoring responds endogenously to …

The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the occupational task profile using rich … individual-level panel data. Our main results suggest that, when only considering within-industry changes in offshoring, we … identify a moderate wage reduction due to offshoring for low-skilled workers, though wage effects in relation to the task …

When materials offshoring is measured by estimating imported intermediate inputs, a common assumption used is that an … the 3-digit I–O industry level, there is a correlation of 0.68 between the offshoring shares made with and without the …