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| Title: | | Does offshoring of materials and business services affect employment? Evidence from a small open economy  |
| Authors: | | Michel, Bernhard Rycx, François |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA discussion papers 4164 |
| Abstract: | | The fear of massive job losses has prompted a fast-growing literature on offshoring and its impact on employment in advanced economies. This paper examines the situation for Belgium. It improves the offshoring intensity measure by computing a volume measure of the share of imported intermediates in output and it is among the first to address both materials and business services offshoring to high-wage and low-wage countries. Estimations of static and dynamic industry-level labour demand equations augmented by offshoring intensities do not reveal a significant impact of either materials or business services offshoring on total employment for Belgium between 1995 and 2003. |
| Subjects: | | Offshoring imported intermediate inputs supply and use tables industry-level employment labour demand equations panel data |
| JEL: | | F15 J22 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-20090605213 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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