paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in US manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000. It finds … that service offshoring has a significant positive effect on productivity in the US, accounting for around 10 percent of … labor productivity growth during this period. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the …

In this paper, we develop a simple model of international outsourcing and apply it to processing trade in China. We …

contracts they can write with suppliers or employees. Our main result concerns the sorting of firms with different productivity … relevant prevalence of outsourcing and foreign direct investment …

. Sectors are populated by final-good producers who differ in productivity levels. Based on productivity and sectoral … different productivity levels choose different ownership structures and supplier locations, i.e., they choose different …

of host-country management skills (middle management) in bringing about the emergence of international offshoring. By … that the positive effect of middle skills on offshoring is weaker, the more advanced are communication technologies in the …

Trade theory consists of a portfolio of models. What elements might be useful in modeling the offshoring of white … characteristics of offshoring, and then use those models to identify the effects of technological or institutional changes which allow … offshoring of white-collar services to occur …