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| Title: | | IT outsourcing and employment growth at the firm level  |
| Authors: | | Ohnemus, Jörg |
| Issue Date: | | 2010 |
| Series/Report no.: | | ZEW Discussion Papers 10-108 |
| Abstract: | | Outsourcing is widely associated with accompanied job losses in the outsourcing firm, at least in the short run. However, the medium and long run effects of outsourcing on employment growth might still be positive. This paper particularly focuses on IT outsourcing and its medium-term effects on employment growth. Therefore, a three year time period from 2003 to 2006 is analysed using German firm-level data and instrumental variable estimation. I find evidence that IT outsourcing has a positive effect on firms' employment growth rate. However, dividing the sample into manufacturing and service firms, a medium-term positive growth effect of IT outsourcing can only be observed for firms operating in the service sector. |
| Subjects: | | Information and Communication Technology Outsourcing Employment Growth |
| JEL: | | L86 L24 L25 J21 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des ZEW ZEW Discussion Papers
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