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 …

occupational structure of employment as a result of technology, offshoring and institutions. This framework takes account not just … behind the observed shifts in employment but that offshoring does play a role. We also find that shifts in product demand are … acting to attenuate the impacts of recent technological progress and offshoring and that changes in wage-setting institutions …

We discuss the effects of offshoring on the labor market in a matching model with endogenous adjustment of educational … skills. We carry out a comparative statics analysis and show that offshoring leads to a restructuring of the economy through … skill-biased technical change (SBTC) where overall welfare is improved. In a policy exercise we show that, if offshoring …

We propose a theoretical framework to analyze the offshoring and reshoring decisions of firms in the age of automation …

We propose a theoretical framework to analyze the offshoring and reshoring decisions of firms in the age of automation …

We propose a theoretical framework to analyze the offshoring and reshoring decisions of firms in the age of automation …