The research agendas of evolutionary economic geography (EEG) and global value chains
(GVCs) have developed more or less independently from each other, with little interaction so …

This paper investigates the impact of global value chain (GVC) participation on productivity.
It uses data on trade in value‐added from the World Input‐Output Database. The results …

Regional trade agreements (RTAs) have been widely adopted to facilitate international trade
and cross-border investment and promote economic development. However, ex ante …

The trade associated with international production networks–supply‐chain trade for short–is
associated with some of the most momentous global economic changes in the last 100 …

Production processes are fragmenting across borders with countries trading tasks rather
than products. Export statistics based on value added reveal a process of vertical …

For most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,“industrialized” and “rich” were
synonymous. Hence it is no surprise that development economists have long theorized …

Global production sharing is determined by international cost differences and frictions
related to the costs of unbundling stages spatially. The interaction between these forces …

In this paper, we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage,
employment, and displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring …

The main goal of this paper is to provide an integrated survey of the literature devoted to
identifying the drivers of structural change, broadly defined as the process of reallocation of …

We analyze the relationship between offshoring and the onshore workforce composition in
German multinational enterprises (MNEs), using plant data that allow us to discern tasks …