The effect of high-tech services offshoring on skilled employment: intra-firm evidence

Mery Tamayo Plata () and Elena Huergo

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Abstract: The offshoring of high-tech services has greatly increased in recent years, with consequences for firms demand for skilled employment in firms. This paper specifically analyzes the relationship between R&D offshoring and the demand for R&D employment using firm-level data for Spanish manufacturing and services companies during the period 2004-2009. Estimating different specifications with panel data techniques, we find that this association is statistically positive. In particular, for services firms a 1 percentage point increase in R&D offshoring raises the demand for researchers by about 11%. This suggests the existence of complementarity among them as productive inputs.

Keywords: R&D offshoring; wages; skilled employment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F16 L24 O32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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Journal Article: The Effect of R&D Services Offshoring on Skilled Employment: Firm Evidence (2016)
Working Paper: The effect of high-tech services offshoring on skilled employment: intra-firm evidence (2013)
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