Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/244490 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2/2013
Publisher: 
Örebro University School of Business, Örebro
Abstract: 
Based on firm level data for the Swedish manufacturing sector the objective of this paper is to analyze relative labor demand effects due to offshoring. Data allow us to distinguish between goods and service offshoring and from which country Swedish firms source their inputs. Overall, our results give no support to the fears that offshoring of goods or services lead to out-location of high-skilled activity in Swedish firms. Rather, this paper finds robust evidence that the aggregate effects from offshoring lead to increasing relative demand of high-skilled labor, mainly due to service offshoring.
Subjects: 
Offshoring
firm level data
relative employment
translog cost function
JEL: 
F14
F16
Additional Information: 
This is an extensively revised version of working paper No. 5/2007.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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