chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … similar frameworks. In the first framework the profitability of offshoring is based on increasing returns to scale on the task …-level, whereas the second framework relies on differences in relative factor endowments of the two countries involved in offshoring …

offshoring of polluting industries to countries with lower environmental standards played only small role in the cleanup of US … examine which forces drove the EU cleanup. I find that concerns about the effect of pollution offshoring were unfounded in the … production and imports were actually exactly opposite to what pollution offshoring would predict. Starting in the early 2000s, EU …