Paper #1490

Título:

Offshoring and skill-upgrading in French manufacturing: A Heckscher-Ohlin-Melitz view

Autores:

Juan Carluccio, Alejandro Cuñat, Harald Fadinger y Christian Fons-Rosen

Fecha:

Septiembre 2015

Resumen:

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 variation in skill intensity across firms 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.

Palabras clave:

offshoring, heterogeneous firms, firm-level factor intensities, Heckscher-Ohlin

Códigos JEL:

F11, F12, F14

Área de investigación:

Economía de la Empresa y Organización Industrial / Economía Laboral, Pública, de Desarrollo y de la Salud

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