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 …

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 …

Offshoring of US jobs is controversial. Critics fear that offshoring will lead to lost jobs and lower domestic wages at … into offshoring. Given a shock that lowers offshoring costs, the theory predicts that domestic wages rise at firms that … crisis in 1994 as exogenous shocks to the marginal cost of offshoring to Mexico, I proceed to test these implications with …

Foreign direct investment (FDI) in advanced business services (ABSs), referred to here as the offshoring of white …

2000 models of 184 car brands headquartered in 25 countries. While offshoring in the car industry has risen from 2000 to … 2013, the top five offshoring brands account for the majority of car assembly relocated to low wage countries. We show that …

Offshoring and offshore outsourcing is increasingly affecting the EU-15, both in the manufacturing and services sectors … limited extent of perhaps up to 2 percent of the workforce as affected. Offshoring and offshore outsourcing, similar to other … offshoring and offshore outsourcing, if they go ahead and implement the EU Lisbon Agenda with respect to labor market reforms and …

The recent increase in R&D offshoring have raised fears that knowledge and competitiveness in advanced countries may be … which R&D offshoring is associated with productivity dynamics of European regions. We find that offshoring regions have … large and positive correlation emerge between the extent of R&D offshoring and the home region productivity growth …