Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/4073 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
CEPR Discussion Paper Series No. 6484
Publisher: 
Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London
Abstract: 
Our paper investigates the link between international outsourcing and wages utilizing a large household panel and combining it with industry level information on industries' outsourcing activities from input-output tables. This approach avoids problems such as aggregation bias, potential endogeneity bias and poor skill definitions that commonly hamper industry-level studies. We find that outsourcing has had a marked impact on wages. Applying two alternative skill classifications we find evidence that a one percentage point increase in outsourcing reduced the wage for workers in the lowest skill categories by up to 1.5% while it increased wages for high-skilled workers by up to 2.6%. This result is robust to a number of different specifications.
JEL: 
F16
J31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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