We discuss the effects of offshoring on the labor market in a matching model with endogenous adjustment of educational … skills. We carry out a comparative statics analysis and show that offshoring leads to a restructuring of the economy through … skill-biased technical change (SBTC) where overall welfare is improved. In a policy exercise we show that, if offshoring …

Following a couple of decades of offshoring, the fear today is of reshoring. Using administrative data on Mexican …

The decline of employment in middle-wage, routine task intensive jobs has been well documented for the USA. Increased … 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 …

pollution haven hypothesis whereby offshoring is central to the mechanism - US manufacturers begin to source from abroad and …