labour across firms affects economy-wide unemployment. Offshoring reduces unemployment when it is confined to high …We set up a general equilibrium model, in which offshoring to a low-wage country can lead to job polarisation in the … pay wages that are positively linked to their profits by a rent-sharing mechanism. Offshoring involves fixed and task …

labour across firms affects economy-wide unemployment. Offshoring reduces unemployment when it is confined to high …We set up a general equilibrium model, in which offshoring to a low-wage country can lead to job polarisation in the … pay wages that are positively linked to their profits by a rent-sharing mechanism. Offshoring involves fixed and task …

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 …

, and on the economy-wide unemployment rate. A reduction in the offshoring cost affects intrafirm and intrasectoral … cost of offshoring affects jobs and unemployment. We also show that the implications of a reduction in the cost of trading … labor market frictions to study the impact of offshoring on intrafirm, intrasectoral, and intersectoral reallocation of jobs …

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 …

domestic labor force at the sector-level. In order to better elucidate the offshoring employment relationship, this paper … production-side shock that changes firms' offshoring decision can influence the local economy and its labor market. …

empirischen Praxis bei der Analyse der Arbeitsmarktwirkungen von Offshoring. Während sich die Theorie auf Ein- oder Zwei …-Sektor-Modelle konzentriert, nutzen empirische Studien zur Identifikation des Offshoring-Effektes die Variation in der Offshoring-Intensität über … eine große Anzahl von Branchen hinweg. Üblicherweise wird dabei ein linearer Offshoring-Term in der empirischen Analyse …

labor market effects of offshoring. While theory focuses on one-sector or two-sector models, empirical studies exploit … variation in offshoring across a large number of industries, typically including a linear offshoring term in the analysis … analyze the effects of offshoring across a continuum of industries with different shares of offshorable tasks that are linked …

labor market effects of offshoring. While theory focuses on one-sector or two-sector models, empirical studies exploit … variation in offshoring across a large number of industries, typically including a linear offshoring term in the analysis …. Thereby, these studies implicitly assume a monotonic relationship between offshoring and labor market outcomes and ignore …