Do labour market institutions matter? Micro-level wage effects of international outsourcing in three European countries

Do labour market institutions matter? Micro-level wage effects of international outsourcing in three European countries

Ingo Geishecker, Holger Görg () and Jakob Roland Munch

Kiel Working Papers from Kiel Institute for the World Economy

Abstract: This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the industry level, distinguishing outsourcing by broad region. Estimating the same specification on different data show that there are some interesting differences in the effect of outsourcing across countries. We discuss some possible reasons for these differences based on labour market institutions.

Keywords: International outsourcing; individual wages; labour market institutions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F16 J31 C23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eec and nep-lab
Date: 2008-02
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