We study the effects of trade integration on the regional coevolution of income, migrations and unemployment in a … a recently documented empirical puzzle, i.e., the divergence of unemployment rates, together with low migrations and …

chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … similar frameworks. In the first framework the profitability of offshoring is based on increasing returns to scale on the task …-level, whereas the second framework relies on differences in relative factor endowments of the two countries involved in offshoring …

domestic labor force at the sector-level. In order to better elucidate the offshoring employment relationship, this paper … production-side shock that changes firms' offshoring decision can influence the local economy and its labor market. …

We look at the effect of domestic redistribution policy on offshoring in an asymmetric two country model of … by the share of offshoring firms in the economy. The intuition for this result is straightforward. The progressive income … therefore affect the domestic economy not only directly but also via changes in the amount of offshoring. This has important …

sharing, which results in aggregate unemployment. In this extended model, offshoring furthermore has non-monotonic effects on …) can offshore routine tasks to a low-wage host country. The most productive firms self-select into offshoring, and the … impact on welfare in the source country can be positive or negative, depending on the share of firms engaged in offshoring …

Offshoring has gained a significant momentum in recent years. Firm size appears to be the leading factor … differentiating firms that offshore from those that do not. We present a model that blends offshoring, or trade in tasks, with a … firm heterogeneity offers new tools for analyzing the effects of offshoring on the employment dynamics within an individual …

Mexico experienced a tremendous expansion of its export-processing maquila sector during the 1990s. At the same time, a …

unemployment. If the jobs performed by domestic workers can be easily substituted by imports, then globalization reduces wages and … increases unemployment. In this situation, in the absence of any government intervention globalization not only reduces the … welfare of workers but could reduce social welfare as well. Both unemployment benefits and severance payments can protect …

factor capital, and the efficiency effect, consumers and producers alike benefit from offshoring industry towards a low …