Working Paper 16-13 - Downstream Offshoring and Firm-level - Employment Evidence for Belgian Manufacturing Firms

Bernhard Klaus Michel

Working Papers from Federal Planning Bureau, Belgium

Abstract: Over the last couple of decades, there has been a large scale reorganisation of manufacturing production processes within global value chains. This has been achieved through fragmentation and offshoring. Fostered by the fall in coordination costs due to information and communication technology developments, offshoring implies that firms increasingly source intermediates from abroad. In developed economies, this has raised fears of massive job losses. Most academic work, in contrast, fails to find evidence that offshoring contributes to lowering employment.

Keywords: Offshoring; Employment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-12-16
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