Trading Tasks: A Simple Theory of Offshoring

By Gene M. Grossman, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg. 2008

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Nonparametric Counterfactual Predictions in Neoclassical Models of International Trade (2017, positive): “When intermediate goods are not traded or traded but their factor content is not reexported, as in Grossman and Rossi-Hansberg (2008), Propositions 2 and 3 can also be applied directly to the analysis of changes in trade costs.”
Spiders and snakes: Offshoring and agglomeration in the global economy (2013, positive): “Much of the focus has been on taking simple characterisations of the technology of unbundling and drawing out the general equilibrium implications for trade and wages (Yi 2003, Grossman and Rossi-Hansberg 2008, Markusen and Venables 2007, Baldwin and Robert-Nicoud 2010).”
Breaking Monotony with Meaning: Motivation in Crowdsourcing Markets (2012, neutral): “New trade paradigms have emerged to explain task-based trade (Grossman and Rossi-Hansberg, 2008) and the division of labor between countries (Antras et al.”
Economic upgrading through global value chain participation: which policies increase the value-added gains? (2017, positive): “For instance, the seminal study by Grossman and Rossi-Hansberg (2008) showed that offshoring can entail productivity gains similar to technological progress for the offshoring nation because it lowers the average cost of inputs. Baldwin and RobertNicoud (2014) extended this framework and showed that”
Global Value Chains (2019, positive): “Studies have shown that productivity gains associated with offshoring and GVCs can arise through multiple channels: finer division of labor across countries (Grossman and Rossi-Hansberg 2008), availability of greater input varieties (Halpern, Koren, and Szeidl 2015), increased competition, learning ”
Costly Jobs: Trade-related Layoffs, Government Compensation, and Voting in U.S. Elections (2011, positive): “In addition, offshoring could adversely affect workers whose jobs are not outsourced by suppressing wages of certain low-skilled sectors in large economies (Grossman and Rossi-Hansberg 2008).”
Occupational Tasks and Changes in the Wage Structure (2011, positive): “More recently, Grossman and Rossi-Hansberg (2008) have proposed a model where offshoring figures as a source of task supply among other competing sources.”
THE CONSTRUCTION OF WORLD INPUT–OUTPUT TABLES IN THE WIOD PROJECT (2013, positive): “Grossman and Rossi-Hansberg (2008), for example, constructed a theory that does not focus on trade in products, but on ‘trade in tasks’.”
Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs (2010, positive): “The argument can be spelled out following Grossman and Rossi-Hansberg (2008).”