Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/121109 
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Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
FIW Working Paper No. 107
Publisher: 
FIW - Research Centre International Economics, Vienna
Abstract: 
In this paper, I estimate the impact of service offshoring on the real wages of U.S. workers by controlling for workers' skill levels and the offshoring susceptibility of different tasks. Matching individual-level wage data with input-output tables over the period from 2006 to 2009, I am further able to account for unobservable individual-level heterogeneity. The results from a Mincerian wage regression indicate that within skill groups, the impact of service offshoring on real wages depends on the task content of the respective occupation. The real wages of medium- and high-skilled workers employed in the least offshorable occupations were positively affected by service offshoring. However, within the groups of medium- and high-skilled workers, service offshoring negatively affected the real wage of the most tradable occupations.
Subjects: 
Offshoring
services
tasks
wages
JEL: 
F14
F16
J31
F20
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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