Offshoring and Directed Technical Change

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Acemoglu, Daron; Gancia, Gino; Zilibotti, Fabrizio
• 署名单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI); Barcelona School of Economics; University of Zurich
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-MACROECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7707
• DOI: 10.1257/mac.20130302
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 84-122
• 关键词: technological-change; INNOVATION; TRADE; tasks; skills; gains; LABOR; BIAS

摘要

We study the implications of offshoring on innovation, technology, and wage inequality in a Ricardian model with directed technical change. Profit maximization determines both the extent of offshoring and the direction of technological progress. A fall in the offshoring cost induces technical change with an ambiguous factor bias. When the initial cost of offshoring is high, an increase in offshoring opportunities causes a fall in the real wages of unskilled workers in industrial countries, skill-biased technical change and rising skill premia. When the offshoring cost is sufficiently low, instead, offshoring induces technical change biased in favor of the unskilled workers.