Offshoring, Tasks, and the Skill-Wage Pattern

Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1574784

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“…We divide labor into high-skilled and low-skilled based on the level of education. 17 With reference to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) we use the same definition of skill groups as previously done by, e.g., Bandick and Hansson (2009) on Swedish data and Baumgarten et al (2013) on German data. Thus, low-skilled workers are defined with educational attainment corresponding to OECD 1999: ISCED-1997, 1-3 where the highest level of education is upper secondary.…”

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Firm-level effects of offshoring of materials and services on relative labor demand

2016

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Based on firm-level data over the period 1997-2002 for the Swedish manufacturing sector the objective of this paper is to analyze relative labor demand effects due to offshoring, separating between materials and services offshoring and also geographical location of trade partner. Overall, our results give no support to the fears that offshoring of materials or services lead to out-location of high-skilled activity in Swedish firms. Rather, this paper finds evidence that the aggregate effects from offshoring lead to increasing relative demand of high-skilled labor, mainly due to services offshoring to middle income countries.

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Firm-level effects of offshoring of materials and services on relative labor demand

2016

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“…Biscourp and Kramarz (2007), Lo Turco and Maggioni (2012), and Defevre and Toubal (2013) use measures in spirit of the broad and narrow definition of international outsourcing, respectively. The literature on the employment and wage effects of offshoring based on industry-level offshoring measures includes Feenstra andHanson (1996, 1999), Slaughter (2001), Hijzen, Görg, and Hine (2005), Hsieh and Woo (2005), Egger (2003, 2005), Egger, Pfaffermayr, and Weber (2007), Hijzen (2007), Geishecker and Görg (2008), Skaksen (2009), Crino (2010), Senses (2010), Ebenstein et al (forthcoming), and Baumgarten, Geishecker, and Görg (2013). 9 Hummels et al (2014) analyze the effects of offshoring and exports on wages for Danish manufacturing firms with more than 50 employees.…”

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On the Heterogeneous Employment Effects of Offshoring: Identifying Productivity and Downsizing Channels

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2014

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This article examines the channels through which offshoring affects employment in a representative sample of German establishments, using a difference-in-differences matching approach. Offshoring is measured by an increase in the share of foreign to total intermediate inputs at the plant-level. We identify a positive productivity effect and isolate a negative downsizing effect from offshoring on employment, by exploiting differences between offshoring plants that do and do not simultaneously restructure. Furthermore, we cannot find evidence of negative indirect employment effects on domestic suppliers or competitors. (JEL F16, J23, F23, C21)

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“…26 These indicators are developed by Geishecker (2006), where they are labeled "material offshoring." See also Baumgarten et al (2013) and Schwörer (2013). These indicators assign material imports to domestic industries by means of the industries' input coefficients for these goods.…”

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Spatial fragmentation of industries by functions

2014

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We show that key functions are spatially clustered with, or dispersed from, each other even within manufacturing industries in West Germany, and that these clustering or dispersion patterns have changed significantly during recent decades. Estimating levels and changes (1992–2007) of localizations and colocalizations of selected functions (production, headquarter services, R&D) within 27 West German industries by means of K densities, we identify two broad groups of industries. In “fragmenting” industries, which account for half of manufacturing employment, functions were more clustered with each other than the industry as a whole after the fall of the Iron Curtain but have, in accordance with regional theories of spatial fragmentation, been unbundled spatially from each other subsequently. In “integrating” industries, by contrast, which account for one third of manufacturing employment, functions were initially dispersed from each other but have subsequently been rebundled spatially with each other. This spatial rebundling may be a consequence of offshoring, i.e., international fragmentation

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Offshoring, Tasks, and the Skill-Wage Pattern

Cited by 48 publications

References 47 publications

Firm-level effects of offshoring of materials and services on relative labor demand

Firm-level effects of offshoring of materials and services on relative labor demand

On the Heterogeneous Employment Effects of Offshoring: Identifying Productivity and Downsizing Channels

Spatial fragmentation of industries by functions

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