Abstract We use firm-level data on U.S. multinationals to show how offshoring affects domestic employment within and across firms. introduce a new instrument for offshoring, bilateral tax treaties, which reduce the cost of offshore activities. find substantial heterogeneity in effects. A 10% increase affiliate drives 1.3% at parent firm, with smaller effects industry regional levels. In contras...

Received: 15 June 2008 Revised: 24 June 2008 Accepted: 25 June 2008 Abstract In the 1990s, enrollments grew rapidly in information systems (IS) and computer science. Then, beginning in 2000 and 2001, enrollments declined precipitously. This paper looks at the enrollment bubble and the dotcom bubble that drove IT enrollments. Although the enrollment bubble occurred worldwide, this paper focuses ...

Abstract We develop a model of international trade with heterogeneous firms and monopsonistically competitive labour markets. show that due to monopsonistic competition our makes sharply different predictions about the effects export goods offshoring tasks. Trade in is unambiguously welfare increasing as domestic resources are reallocated large high productivity low productivities exit market t...

This paper offers new insights into the role of firms versus individuals in driving technology directions, and the extent to which human capital may be lost during industrial shifts. We explore in particular whether (1) due to different offshore production economics, firms who move manufacturing offshore slow U.S.-based R&D activities in an emerging technology and (2) the inventors originally w...