Offshoring, Globalization and Welfare
Offshoring, Globalization and Welfare
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10.2139/ssrn.2056214
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2012-05
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Yiming Zhou;Dao‐Zhi Zeng
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作者：
Yiming Zhou;Dao‐Zhi Zeng
我们研究了两个国家和一个部门规模收益递增的一般均衡模型中的离岸外包问题。我们的模型揭示，离岸发生和内生演变的钟形模式时，贸易成本下降，解释了一些程式化的事实，在发达国家。此外，这个简单的框架可以用来研究福利问题。我们发现，离岸外包成本的下降有利于高工资国家，但损害了低工资国家。另一方面，低工资国家受益于贸易自由化。贸易成本下降对高工资国家福利的影响取决于离岸自由度的价值。
We investigate the issue of offshoring in a general-equilibrium model of two countries and one sector of increasing returns to scale. Our model uncovers that offshoring occurs and endogenously evolves in a bell-shaped pattern when trade costs decline, explaining some stylized facts in developed countries. Furthermore, this simple framework can be applied to examine the welfare issue. We find that a fall in offshoring costs benefits the high-wage country but hurts the low-wage country. On the other hand, the low-wage country benefits with trade liberalization. The impact of falling trade costs on the welfare of the high-wage country depends on the values of offshoring freeness.