Offshore outsourcing and non-production workers: Firm-level relationships disaggregated by skills and suppliers

Eiichi Tomiura, Banri Ito and Ryuhei Wakasugi ()

No 760, KIER Working Papers from Kyoto University, Institute of Economic Research

Abstract: Previous studies have established that offshoring firms employ more non-production workers. By using micro-data on Japanese firms, this paper disaggregates non-production workers. The share of skilled non-production workers tends to be high in offshoring firms but that of unskilled non-production workers is not. The share of non-production workers for the management of overseas activities tends to be high in FDI firms and in firms outsourcing to foreign suppliers, but not in Japanese firms outsourcing to offshore suppliers owned by other Japanese firms. These findings suggest that offshoring has different impacts on employment depending on suppliers and the worker's skill.

Keywords: offshoring; outsourcing; non-production workers; skill; firm-level data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D23 F23 L24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27pages
Date: 2011-03
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