Arbeitspapier
Offshoring and the onshore composition of tasks and skills
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, occupations, and workforce skills. Offshoring is associated with a statistically significant shift towards more non-routine and more interactive tasks, and with a shift towards highly educated workers. Moreover, the shift towards highly educated workers is in excess of what is implied by changes in either the task or the occupational composition. Whether offshored activities are located in low-income or high-income countries does not alter the direction of the relationship. We find offshoring to predict between 10 and 15 percent of observed changes in wage-bill shares of highly educated workers and measures of non-routine and interactive tasks.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IAW Diskussionspapiere ; No. 55
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Trade and Labor Market Interactions
Empirical Studies of Trade
Multinational Firms; International Business
Labor Demand
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- Thema
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Trade in tasks
multinational enterprises
demand for labor linked employer-employee data
Arbeitsnachfrage
Offshoring
Arbeitskräfte
Qualifikation
Multinationales Unternehmen
Deutschland
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Becker, Sascha O.
Ekholm, Karolina
Muendler, Marc-Andreas
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung (IAW)
- (wo)
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Tübingen
- (wann)
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2009
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Becker, Sascha O.
- Ekholm, Karolina
- Muendler, Marc-Andreas
- Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung (IAW)
Entstanden
- 2009
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