Services offshoring and wages: Evidence from micro data

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This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry information on offshoring. Our results show that services ofsshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit from services offshoring in terms of higher real wages. Hence, offshoring has contributed to a widening of the wage gap between skilled and less skilled workers. This result is obtained while controlling for individual and sectoral observed and unobserved heterogeneity. In particular, our empirical model also controls for the impact of technological change and offshoring materials.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Kiel Working Paper ; No. 1434

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Trade and Labor Market Interactions ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models
• Subject: Services offshoring ; individual wages ; Dienstleistungssektor ; Unternehmensdienstleistung ; Offshoring ; Auslandsproduktion ; Lohnstruktur ; Qualifikation ; Dienstleistung ; Import ; Großbritannien

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Geishecker, Ingo ; Görg, Holger
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
• (where): Kiel
• (when): 2008

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/24829
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET