Offshoring: General Equilibrium Effects on Wages, Production and Trade

Richard Baldwin and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

No 250, Development Working Papers from Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano, University of Milano

Abstract: A simple model of offshoring, which depicts offshoring as "shadow migration", permits harsimonious derivation of necessary and sufficient conditions for the effects on wages, prices, production and trade. We show that offshoring requires modification of the four classic international trade theorems. We also show that offshoring is an independent source of comparative advantage and can lead to intra-industry trade in a Walrasian setting. The model is extended to allow for two-way offshoring between similar nations and to allow for monopolistic competition. We also show that, unlike trade in goods, trade in tasks typically makes all types of workers better off in both the host and home countries (with some proviso).

Pages: 42
Date: 2008-06-30
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