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equilibrium where input sub-bundles may be traded (offshoring). The model allows for several goods and two fragments, produced …. I also explore trade policy implications and compare offshoring to migration. …
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of offshoring emphasized by Grossman & Rossi-Hansberg (2008) emerges as a vehicle of job creation. Improvements in the … technology of offshoring causes job losses at the extensive margin where ever more tasks are performed abroad, but it also causes … improvements in the technology of offshoring. …
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This paper identifies critical modeling choices, as well as differences in the driving forces behind offshoring, that … may explain differences in results. Offshoring of industry-specific tasks has wage and employment effects that are vastly … (offshoring), and it may occur in opposite directions or the same direction at both margins, again depending on how industries …
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We look at managerial and production wages in countries that differ in size and relative endowments. Production labor is assumed to be a variable input composed of tradable tasks, while managerial labor is a fixed, non-tradable input. Task performance is subject to increasing returns to scale on...
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distinguish between domestic and foreign sourcing, as well as between outsourcing and vertical integration. A firm’s choice is …
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