Wage effects of U.S. service offshoring by skills and tasks

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In this paper, I estimate the impact of service offshoring on the real wages of U.S. workers by controlling for workers' skill levels and the offshoring susceptibility of different tasks. Matching individual-level wage data with input-output tables over the period from 2006 to 2009, I am further able to account for unobservable individual-level heterogeneity. The results from a Mincerian wage regression indicate that within skill groups, the impact of service offshoring on real wages depends on the task content of the respective occupation. The real wages of medium- and high-skilled workers employed in the least offshorable occupations were positively affected by service offshoring. However, within the groups of medium- and high-skilled workers, service offshoring negatively affected the real wage of the most tradable occupations.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: FIW Working Paper ; No. 107

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Empirical Studies of Trade ; Trade and Labor Market Interactions ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials ; International Factor Movements and International Business: General
• Subject: Offshoring ; services ; tasks ; wages

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Püschel, Julia
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): FIW - Research Centre International Economics
• (where): Vienna
• (when): 2013

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/121109
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET