of the Mexican economy such as the differences between maquila and non-maquila manufacturing plants and the existence of … the equilibrium with an informal sector. -- offshoring ; informal sector ; maquiladoras ; trade and labor markets ; Mexico …

The paper answers two questions simultaneously. What is the effect of offshoring on firms' total factor productivity …? What is the effect of offshoring on skill-biased technological change? We estimate a model of firm production that allows … for the effect of offshoring on both total factor productivity and relative skilled labor productivity, and for spillovers …

of employment probabilities from offshoring of services inputs only, although, in contrast to manufacturing industries …We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular …. Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), linked with industry-level data on offshoring of materials and …

This paper analyses the link between offshoring in German plants and the offshoring potential of their employees. We … use information on the offshoring potential of jobs from representative task data and merge it with linked employer …-employee data, for which information on different modes of offshoring behaviour is available. We empirically identify individual and …

Research for evidence on offshoring activities and its driving forces has been done by analyzing gross trade flows … related to offshoring using gravity equations augmented by ad hoc measures of supply-side country differences. We develop a … in parts and components. Our results bring evidence that bilateral trade related to offshoring activities across Europe …

of the Mexican economy such as the differences between maquila and non-maquila manufacturing plants and the existence of …

employment at home. The numerical analysis, with calibration to U.S. manufacturing sector, shows that the strong negativity of …

Recent empirical studies have been searching for evidence on and driving forces for offshoring. Frequently, this has … competing with the role of multilateral trade resistance. Our results support evidence for offshoring activities across Europe …