China's emergence as a great economic power has induced an epochal shift in patterns of
world trade. Simultaneously, it has challenged much of the received empirical wisdom about …

This paper reviews the empirical literature on the effects of offshoring and foreign activities of
multinational enterprises on developed countries' labour markets. Results suggest that …

Outsourcing Economics has a double meaning. First, it is a book about the economics of
outsourcing. Second, it examines the way that economists have understood globalization as …

We employ data that match the population of Danish workers to the universe of private-
sector Danish firms, with product-level trade flows by origin-and destination-countries. We …

The authors discuss recent empirical research on how globalization has affected income
inequality in developing countries. They begin with a discussion of conceptual issues …

In this paper, we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage,
employment, and displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring …

We argue that trade in intermediate inputs, or “global production sharing,” is a potentially
important explanation for the increase in the wage gap between skilled and unskilled …

A recent boom in commodities-for-manufactures trade between China and other developing
countries has led to much concern about the losers from rising import competition in …

This paper examines the impact of globalization on wage inequality using Chinese Urban
Household Survey data from 1988 to 2008. Exploring two trade liberalization shocks, Deng …

Technological change has reduced the relative price of capital goods. Reductions in trade
costs make it cheaper to import capital goods. With capital-skill complementarity, both can …