analytically in a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous firms that a fall in variable offshoring costs boosts trade in … call the export-magnification effect of offshoring. More specifically, lower barriers to offshoring reduce the average … costs of inputs for offshoring firms and allow more firms to source cheap foreign intermediates, which improves firm …

offshoring are comparable. Finally, while multinationals manage their workforce more flexibly than domestic firms, they have …

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 …

workers at home and abroad. In an extension to our baseline model, we illustrate that offshoring production from the high …

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 …

between offshoring and exports. We model a world consisting of many advanced countries that trade differentiated goods among …