Employment, job turnover, and trade in producer services: UK firm-level evidence

Alexander Hijzen, Mauro Pisu, Richard Upward and Peter Wright

Canadian Journal of Economics, 2011, vol. 44, issue 3, 1020-1043

Abstract: We provide the first firm-level evidence of the impact of the trade in producer services (`offshoring') on the labour market. Using a new data set from the UK that measures trade in services at the firm level, we find no evidence that importing intermediate services is associated with job losses or greater worker turnover. Using regression to control for observable differences between firms that import service inputs and those that do not, we show that firms that start importing intermediate services experience faster employment growth than equivalent firms that do not. This seems likely to be the result of positive demand shocks, which cause a simultaneous increase in employment, output, and use of imported service inputs.

JEL-codes: F16 F2 J23 J63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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