the paper it is shown that discrimination based on employment status is an equilibrium hiring strategy even when the firm …

unemployment decreases upon offshoring in the presence of perfect intersectoral labor mobility. If, as a result, labor moves to the … sector with the lower (or equal) vacancy costs, there is an unambiguous decrease in economywide unemployment. With imperfect … intersectoral labor mobility, unemployment in the offshoring sector can rise, with an unambiguous unemployment reduction in the non …