Does offshoring of materials and business services affect employment? Evidence from a small open economy
The fear of massive job losses has prompted a fast-growing literature on offshoring and its impact on employment in advanced economies. This paper examines the situation for Belgium. It improves the offshoring intensity measure by computing a volume measure of the share of imported intermediates in output and it is among the first to address both materials and business services offshoring to high-wage and low-wage countries. Estimations of static and dynamic industry-level labour demand equations augmented by offshoring intensities do not reveal a significant impact of either materials or busi... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | doc-type:workingPaper |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2009 |
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Bonn: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Schlagwörter: | ddc:330 / F15 / J22 / Offshoring / imported intermediate inputs / supply and use tables / industry-level employment / labour demand equations / panel data / Vorprodukt / Unternehmensdienstleistung / Sektorale Beschäftigungsstruktur / Arbeitsnachfrage / Beschäftigungseffekt / Schätzung / Belgien |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26543620 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/35499 |