Offshoring and the Onshore Composition of Tasks and Skills

Sascha Becker, Karolina Ekholm () and Marc-Andreas Muendler

No 55, IAW Discussion Papers from Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung (IAW)

Abstract: We analyze the relationship between o®shoring and the onshore workforce composition tasks, occupations, and workforce skills. O®shoring is associated with a statistically signi¯cant shift towards more non-routine and more interactive tasks, and with a shift towards highly educated workers. Moreover, the shift towards highly educated work- ers is in excess of what is implied by changes in either the task or the occupational composition. Whether o®shored activities are located in low-income or high-income countries does not alter the direction of the relationship. We ¯nd o®shoring 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.

Keywords: trade in tasks; multinational firms; demand for labor; linked-employer-employee data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 F16 F23 J23 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 56 pages
Date: 2009-11
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