Services offshoring and wages: Evidence from micro data

Ingo Geishecker and Holger Görg

No 1434, Kiel Working Papers from Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel)

Abstract: This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry information on offshoring. Our results show that services ofsshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals negatively. By contrast, skilled workers 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 materials.

Keywords: Services offshoring; individual wages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 F16 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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