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 …

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 …

This paper provides new evidence on how off-shoring 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 off-shoring cost …, guides estimation. Cost shares of tasks are linked to off-shoring in a panel estimation using German data for 1998-2007. It …

We study the role of labor market mismatch in the adjustment to a trade liberalization that results in the offshoring …-intuitively this type of job displacement is actually beneficial for the labor market in the country doing the offshoring. Mismatch …

middle-skill workers have remained subdued. We attribute this outcome to the rise in offshoring and low-skilled immigration … well as their implications for U.S. welfare. In the model, the increase in offshoring negatively affects middle … depressed due to the rise in low-skilled immigration. Native workers react to immigration by investing in training. Offshoring …

I propose a "technology channel" through which imports of low-skilled intermediates (offshoring) benefit both skilled … presence of this channel. Offshoring is associated with large increases in technology variables -- equipment-labor ratio and R … structural model. Results show that it is the dominant mechanism through which offshoring affects labor outcomes, offsetting …

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. …