We look at the effect of domestic redistribution policy on offshoring in an asymmetric two country model of … by the share of offshoring firms in the economy. The intuition for this result is straightforward. The progressive income … therefore affect the domestic economy not only directly but also via changes in the amount of offshoring. This has important …

). It turns out that, compared to non-offshoring firms, firms that relocated activities were larger and more productive, and … relocate, and this points to self-selection of "better" firms into offshoring. This finding is in line with results from recent … others were not. Broadly in line with hypotheses derived from the literature there is no evidence that offshoring has a …

of competitive pressure: relocation of assembly operations and offshoring of automotive parts production. The knowledge …

input supplier (vertical integration vs. outsourcing), as well as the location of intermediate input production (offshore vs … intensity, but favors outsourcing in industries of high sourcing intensity. Moreover, we find that productivity boosts … offshoring throughout all industries, with the effect increasing monotonically in the sourcing intensity. Our results lend strong …