Services offshoring and wages: Evidence from micro data

Görg, Holger and Ingo Geishecker
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Holger Görg

No 8628, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual-level data combined with industry information on offshoring for the United Kingdom. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low- and medium-skilled individuals negatively. By contrast, skilled workers may benefit from services offshoring in terms of higher real wages. Hence, offshoring has contributed to a widening of the wage gap between skilled and less skilled workers. This result is obtained while controlling for individual and sectoral observed and unobserved heterogeneity. In particular, our empirical model also controls for the impact of technological change and offshoring of materials.

Keywords: Individual level; Services offshoring; Wages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 F16 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-11
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Journal Article: Services offshoring and wages: evidence from micro data (2013)
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