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Offshoring and Skill-upgrading in French Manufacturing: A Heckscher-Ohlin-Melitz View

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  • Juan Carluccio
  • A. Cu at
  • H. Fadinger
  • C. Fons-Rosen

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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 within-industry variation in skill intensity 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-abundant countries affects the firm-level skill intensities of French manufacturers.

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  • Juan Carluccio & A. Cu at & H. Fadinger & C. Fons-Rosen, 2015. "Offshoring and Skill-upgrading in French Manufacturing: A Heckscher-Ohlin-Melitz View," Working papers 580, Banque de France.
    • Handle: RePEc:bfr:banfra:580
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    1. Vincent Bignon & Cecilia Garcia-Peñalosa, 2017. "The long-term cost of protectionism for education," Rue de la Banque, Banque de France, issue 47, september.
    2. Juan Carluccio & Alejandro Cuñat & Harald Fadinger & Christian Fons-Rosen, 2017. "Winners and losers from globalisation: offshoring benefits skilled workers and hurts the less skilled," Rue de la Banque, Banque de France, issue 51, november.
    3. Carluccio, Juan & Cuñat, Alejandro & Fadinger, Harald & Fons-Rosen, Christian, 2019. "Offshoring and skill-upgrading in French manufacturing," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 118(C), pages 138-159.
    4. Francesco Bogliacino & Dario Guarascio & Valeria Cirillo, 2018. "The dynamics of profits and wages: technology, offshoring and demand," Industry and Innovation, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(8), pages 778-808, September.

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    • F11 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Neoclassical Models of Trade
    • F12 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
    • F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Empirical Studies of Trade

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