This paper sets up a two-country model of offshoring with monopolistically competitive product and monopsonistically … competitive labour markets. In our model, an incentive for offshoring exists even between symmetric countries, because shifting … labour market power. However, offshoring between symmetric countries has negative welfare effects and therefore calls for …

offshoring. In this second-best world, a revenue-neutral decrease in the progressivity of the tax schedule promotes higher … redistribution to an increasing share of lower-wage workers. However, as the tax reform involves an increase in the offshoring …

equilibrium where input sub-bundles may be traded (offshoring). The model allows for several goods and two fragments, produced … with high-skilled and low-skilled labor. I address wage and welfare effects under flexible wages, and under a minimum wage …. I also explore trade policy implications and compare offshoring to migration …