by the cost of task trade. Comparing orders of magnitude we conclude that offshoring between similar countries only has a … small positive effect on the managerial wage premium, compared to offshoring between countries with a different relative …

We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms …

This paper provides new evidence on how offshoring shifts relative labor demand for tasks at the industry level. A … novel theoretical mechanism, based on sorting of heterogeneous workers into occupations with task dependent offshoring cost …, guides estimation. Cost shares of tasks are linked to offshoring in a panel estimation using German data for 1998-2007. It is …

rise in offshoring and low-skilled immigration, and we develop a three-country stochastic growth model to rationalize this … outcome. In the model, the increase in offshoring negatively affects the middle-skill occupations but benefits the high …

(products) of the economy and thus also includes employment effects of service offshoring. Third, we also calculate the …

The offshoring of production by multinational firms has expanded dramatically in recent decades, increasing these firms … probability. We also show that a firm's probability of offshoring increases with the share of its employees who are immigrants …

The offshoring of production by multinational firms has expanded dramatically in recent decades, increasing these firms … probability. We also show that a firm's probability of offshoring increases with the share of its employees who are immigrants …

offshoring on the labor market can substantially deviate from standard neoclassical conclusions when search frictions hinder … exploiting offshoring. It implies that automation (offshoring) may reduce (raise) employment by lengthening (shortening …) unemployment duration due to higher (lower) match selectivity. We find empirical support for this implication in a dataset covering …

sharing, which results in aggregate unemployment. In this extended model, offshoring furthermore has non-monotonic effects on …) can offshore routine tasks to a low-wage host country. The most productive firms self-select into offshoring, and the … impact on welfare in the source country can be positive or negative, depending on the share of firms engaged in offshoring …

markets through exporting and through offshoring, and we show that due to monopsonistic competition our model makes sharply … and the offshoring of tasks. At the firm-level, exporting leads to higher wages and employment, while offshoring of … firms restrict employment to keep wages low, resulting in too many firms that are on average too small. Offshoring on the …