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 …

U.S. manufacturing experienced a precipitous and historically unprecedented decline in employment in the 2000s. Many … the sector’s share of aggregate employment has been declining - argue that manufacturing's job losses are largely the … manufacturing's relative and absolute employment decline. This paper discusses interpreting labor productivity statistics, which …

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