Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/128697 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
WIFO Working Papers No. 152
Publisher: 
Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO), Vienna
Abstract: 
This paper presents first insights into the role of international outsourcing on the productivity of low-skilled workers in EU manufacturing. Whereas in the short run international outsourcing exhibits a negative marginal effect on real value added per low-skilled worker, the long-run parameter estimates reveal a positive impact. This may be explained by imperfections on European labor and goods markets, which prohibit an instant adjustment in the factor employment and the output structure. The change in the outsourcing intensity since 1993 alone acounts for a long-run increase of about 3.3% in the real value added per low-skilled worker.
Subjects: 
International outsourcing
Productivity effects
Panel Econometrics
JEL: 
C33
F14
F15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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