Offshoring and the skill composition of employment in the Italian manufacturing industries

Anna M. Falzoni and Lucia Tajoli ()
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Anna M. Falzoni: Università degli Studi di Bergamo and CESPRI, Bocconi University, Milan - Italy

No 219, CESPRI Working Papers from CESPRI, Centre for Research on Innovation and Internationalisation, Universita' Bocconi, Milano, Italy

Abstract: In this paper, we assess the extent of offshoring in the Italian manufacturing industries, and we study how this phenomenon is affecting the skill composition of employment. Measuring offshoring using the import-use matrices of input-output tables, firstly we estimate the impact of offshoring on the general level of employment, and we don’t find any significant relationship. Then, we examine the relationship between offshoring and employment composition by skills. Our results show that the use of offshoring is not restricted to the search for cheaper unskilled labor, and its impact on the composition of employment seems to be quite different in different industry groups.

Keywords: offshoring; employment; skills (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 F16 J23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2008-07, Revised 2008-07
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