Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/58516 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6514
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We study the relationship between offshoring and job stability in Italy in the period 1995-2001 by using an administrative dataset on manufacturing workers. We find that the international fragmentation of production negatively affects job stability. Service offshoring and material purchases from developed countries foster job-to-job transitions within manufacturing of all workers and white collars, respectively. However, the most detrimental effects for job stability come from material offshoring to low income countries which drives blue collar workers out of manufacturing. Therefore, policy interventions should especially focus on this latter category of workers more exposed to fragmentation processes and foreign competition.
Subjects: 
offshoring
job stability
manufacturing
duration analysis
proportional hazard
JEL: 
C41
F14
F16
J62
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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