International Outsourcing and the Skill–Specific Wage Bill in Eastern Europe

Peter Egger and Robert Stehrer

The World Economy, 2003, vol. 26, issue 1, 61-72

Abstract: This paper analyses the effects of international fragmentation in terms of intermediate goods trade on the dynamics of the skilled–to–unskilled labour wage bill ratio in 14 manufacturing industries of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. Both intermediate goods exports and imports of the CEEC exhibit a positive impact on the wage bill ratio. Since 1993, intermediate goods trade with the EU alone has accounted for a considerable reduction of the predicted annual change in the skilled–to–unskilled wage bill ratio in the three CEEC.

Date: 2003
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