Multi-product offshoring
Carsten Eckel and
Michael Irlacher
European Economic Review, 2017, vol. 94, issue C, 71-89
Abstract:
We show that the labor market effects of production line relocations within multi-product firms differ significantly from the relocation of production tasks within single-product firms. By incorporating offshoring of labor-intensive goods in a model with multi-product firms, and exploring its implications in partial and general equilibrium, we identify the cannibalization effect of offshoring as an important transmission mechanism within multi-product firms and show that this effect hits domestic labor demand in addition to the well-known relocation effect. Furthermore, we contribute to the growing literature on multi-product firms and trade by showing that lower offshoring costs tend to increase the range of products produced.
Keywords: Multi-product firms; Cannibalization effect; Labor market effects of offshoring; Efficiency-seeking offshoring; General oligopolistic equilibrium (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F12 F23 L23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2017.02.006
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