Offshoring and skill-upgrading in French manufacturing: a Heckscher-Ohlin-Melitz view

Juan Carluccio, Alejandro Cun͂at, Harald Fadinger and Christian Fons-Rosen
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Alejandro Cunat

No 15-13, Working Papers from University of Mannheim, Department of Economics

Abstract: We present a factor-proportions trade model in which heterogeneous firms can offshore intermediate inputs subject to fixed offshoring costs. In the skill-abundant country, high-productivity firms offshore a larger range of labor-intensive inputs to the labor-abundant countries than low-productivity firms. Differently from the traditional versions of factor- proportions trade theory, Heckscher-Ohlin forces operate at the within-industry level, leading to endogenous variation in skill intensity across firms that is positively correlated with firm productivity. Using French firm-level data for the years 1996 to 2007, we provide empirical support for the factor proportions channel through which offshoring to labor-abundantcountries affects the firm-level skill intensities of French manufacturers

Keywords: offshoring; heterogeneous firms; firm-level factor intensities; Heckscher-Ohlin (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F11 F12 F14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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