Logo Logo
Hilfe
Hilfe
Switch Language to English

Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo und Görg, Holger (2013): Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern. In: European Economic Review, Bd. 61: S. 132-152

Dies ist die neueste Version des Dokumentes.

Volltext auf 'Open Access LMU' nicht verfügbar.

Abstract

The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the occupational task profile using rich individual-level panel data. Our main results suggest that, when only considering within-industry changes in offshoring, we identify a moderate wage reduction due to offshoring for low-skilled workers, though wage effects in relation to the task profile of occupations are not estimated with sufficient precision. However, when allowing for cross-industry effects of offshoring, i.e. allowing for labor mobility across industries, negative wage effects of offshoring are quite substantial and depend strongly on the task profile of workers’ occupations. A higher degree of interactivity and, in particular, non-routine content effectively shields workers against the negative wage impact of offshoring.

Alle Versionen dieses Dokumentes

Dokument bearbeiten Dokument bearbeiten