Service Offshoring and the Skill Composition of Labour Demand*

Crinò, Rosario

doi:10.1111/j.1468-0084.2010.00634.x

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“…This is per se an interesting outcome as it indicates that material and service off‐shoring do not have a homogeneous effect on specialization. This outcome is consistent with Crinò (), where service and material off‐shoring have a different impact on the demand for skilled and unskilled workers.…”

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Off‐Shoring, Specialization and R&D

Bournakis

Vecchi

Venturini

2016

Review of Income and Wealth

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This paper investigates whether off‐shoring promotes technological specialization by reallocating resources towards high‐tech industries and/or stimulating within industry R&D. Using data for the USA, Japan and Europe, our results show that material off‐shoring promotes high‐tech specialization through input reallocation between sectors, while service off‐shoring favors technologically advanced production by increasing within‐industry productivity, mainly via its positive impact on R&D. Conversely, we find that the increasing fragmentation of core production tasks, captured by narrow off‐shoring, has adverse effects on technological specialisation, which suggests that this type of off‐shoring is mainly pursued for cost‐reduction motives.

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Off‐Shoring, Specialization and R&D

Bournakis

Vecchi

Venturini

2016

Review of Income and Wealth

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“…For instance, the share of importers is roughly 25% in Chile (Pavcnik, 2003;Kasahara and Lapham, 2009), 20% both in Indonesia (Amiti and Konings, 2007) and in Belgium (Muuls and Pisu, 2007), and 27% in Sweden (Anderson et al, 2008). Moreover, these …gures imply that imported inputs account for roughly 16% (0:29 0:54 = 0:16) of an industry's total expenditure in intermediates, slightly less than the corresponding value (19%) for the EU (Crinò, 2011). Figures for the U.S. are instead lower: (i) the share of importers is 2% in total …rms (Bernard et al, 2009) and 14% in manufacturing …rms (Bernard et al, 2007); (ii) across industries, imported inputs account for roughly 12% of the average expenditure in intermediates (Crinò, 2009 Table 3 reports summary statistics on outcome and covariates, separately for importers (panel a)) and non-importers (panel b)).…”

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“…27 In other words, the observed characteristics in X exhaust all factors that jointly a¤ect import status and relative skilled employment.…”

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“…Studies on productivity e¤ects include Amiti and Wei (2009) and Hijzen et al (2010). As for labor demand e¤ects, industry-level studies include Feenstra and Hanson (1999), Hijzen et al (2005), and Crinò (2010bCrinò ( , 2011, whereas …rm-level studies include Görg and Hanley (2005), Biscourp and Kramarz (2007), and Becker et al (2009). Updated surveys of this literature can be found in Feenstra and Hanson (2003), Hijzen (2005), Crinò (2009), and Feenstra (2010).…”

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Imported inputs and skill upgrading

Crinò¹

2012

Labour Economics

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This paper studies the e¤ect of imported inputs on relative skilled labor demand. To this purpose, it uses …rm-level data for 27 transition countries and propensity score matching techniques.The results show that importing inputs induces skill upgrading: according to a conservative estimate, it explains roughly one-quarter of the higher share of skilled employment observed at importers. The paper discusses possible mechanisms behind this result. In particular, it reports suggestive evidence that importing may lead …rms to engage in skill-intensive activities, such as production of new goods, improvements in product quality and, to a lesser extent, R&D and technology adoption.JEL Numbers: F1.

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“…Autor, Levy, and Murnane 2003) and the literature on "off-shorability" of tasks (e.g. Crinò 2009;Blinder 2006). We consider this partition as relevant also in determining the relative specialization of native and immigrant workers.…”

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Immigration, Jobs, and Employment Protection: Evidence From Europe Before and During the Great Recession

D’Amuri

Peri

2014

Journal of the European Economic Association

172

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. n this paper we analyze the impact of immigrants on the type and quantity of native jobs. We use data on fifteen Western European countries during the 1996-2010 period. We find that immigrants, by taking manual-routine type of occupations pushed natives towards more "complex" (abstract and communication) jobs. Such positive reallocation occurred while the total number of jobs held by natives was unaffected. This job upgrade was associated in the short run to a 0.6% increase in native wages for a doubling of the immigrants' share. These results are robust to the use of two alternative IV strategies based on past settlement of immigrants across European countries measured alternatively with Census or Labor Force data. The job upgrade slowed, but did not come to a halt, during the Great Recession. We also document the labor market flows behind it: the complexity of jobs offered to new native hires was higher relative to the complexity of lost jobs. Finally, we find evidence that such reallocation was significantly larger in countries with more flexible labor laws and that his tendency was particularly strong for less educated workers. Giovanni Peri (University of California, Davis and NBER) * Terms of use: Documents in May, 2012AbstractIn this paper we analyze the impact of immigrants on the type and quantity of native jobs. We use data on fifteen Western European countries during the 1996-2010 period.We find that immigrants, by taking manual-routine type of occupations pushed natives towards more "complex" (abstract and communication) jobs. Such positive reallocation occurred while the total number of jobs held by natives was unaffected. This job upgrade was associated in the short run to a 0.6% increase in native wages for a doubling of the immigrants' share. These results are robust to the use of two alternative IV strategies based on past settlement of immigrants across European countries measured alternatively with Census or Labor Force data. The job upgrade slowed, but did not come to a halt, during the Great Recession. We also document the labor market flows behind it:the complexity of jobs offered to new native hires was higher relative to the complexity of lost jobs. Finally, we find evidence that such reallocation was significantly larger in countries with more flexible labor laws and that his tendency was particularly strong for less educated workers.JEL Classification Codes: J24, J31, J61.

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Service Offshoring and the Skill Composition of Labour Demand*

Cited by 45 publications

References 62 publications

Off‐Shoring, Specialization and R&D

Off‐Shoring, Specialization and R&D

Imported inputs and skill upgrading

Immigration, Jobs, and Employment Protection: Evidence From Europe Before and During the Great Recession

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