pay wages that are positively linked to their profits by a rent-sharing mechanism. Offshoring involves fixed and task …We set up a general equilibrium model, in which offshoring to a low-wage country can lead to job polarisation in the … variable offshoring costs. A reduction in those variable costs increases offshoring at the intensive and at the extensive …

, impact of foreign sourcing depends on a key elasticity of firm size to production efficiency. Structural estimation of this …

and wages, in the remaining domestic activities of the offshoring firm. Consistent with these models, we find that … program petition data to micro-data from the U.S. Census Bureau. We exploit this data to assess how offshoring impacts … domestic firm-level aggregate employment, output, wages and productivity. A class of models predicts that more productive firms …

Estimating the causal effect of offshoring on domestic employment is difficult because of the inherent simultaneity of …. Underlying these results is substantial heterogeneity based on offshoring margin and firm organizational structure. For example …

offshoring opportunities into CEE. It explores three issues: First, it builds upon the theoretical framework of the 'new paradigm … of globalization, which considers offshoring as one of the most important globalizing forces of recent time. This results … services. Third, the paper examines the implications of offshoring for the home markets in CEE assessing its impact on their …

and the offshoring of tasks. At the firm-level, exporting leads to higher wages and employment, while offshoring of … firms restrict employment to keep wages low, resulting in too many firms that are on average too small. Offshoring on the … markets through exporting and through offshoring, and we show that due to monopsonistic competition our model makes sharply …

and the offshoring of tasks. At the firm-level, exporting leads to higher wages and employment, while offshoring of … firms restrict employment to keep wages low, resulting in too many firms that are on average too small. Offshoring on the … markets through exporting and through offshoring, and we show that due to monopsonistic competition our model makes sharply …