Do Labour Market Institutions Matter? Micro-Level Wage Effects of International Outsourcing in Three European Countries

Ingo Geishecker (), Holger Görg and Jakob Munch
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Ingo Geishecker: University of Göttingen

No 3212, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

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: labour market institutions; individual wages; international outsourcing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 F16 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2007-12
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Published - published in: Review of World Economics, 2010, 146 (1), 179-198

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Working Paper: Do labour market institutions matter? Micro-level wage effects of international outsourcing in three European countries (2010)
Working Paper: Do Labour Market Institutions Matter?: Micro-Level Wage Effects of International Outsourcing in Three European Countries (2008)
Working Paper: Do labour market institutions matter? Micro-level wage effects of international outsourcing in three European countries (2008)
Working Paper: Do Labour Market Institutions Matter? Micro-level Wage Effects of International Outsourcing in Three European Countries (2007)
Working Paper: Do Labour Market Institutions Matter? Micro-level Wage Effects of International Outsourcing in Three European Countries (2007)
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