We study the incidence of offshoring, or trade in tasks, on firms’ productivity and on manufacturing employment in a … has a Hick’s neutral technological edge over the other, tasks in which the productivity edge more than offsets offshoring … costs get offshored, giving rise to global disintegration of the production process. Offshoring raises firms’ productivity …

Offshoring is generally believed to be productivity-enhancing and this belief is underpinned by economic theory. This … productivity. Estimating the impact of materials and business services offshoring on productivity growth with industry-level data … show that there is no productivity effect of materials offshoring, while business services offshoring leads to productivity …