Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/25262 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
SFB 649 Discussion Paper No. 2008,020
Publisher: 
Humboldt University of Berlin, Collaborative Research Center 649 - Economic Risk, Berlin
Abstract: 
Using an administrative data set containing daily information on individual workers' employment histories, we investigate how workers' labour market transitions are affected by international outsourcing. In order to do so, we estimate hazard rate models for match separations, as well as for worker flows from employment to another job, to unemployment, and to out of the labour force. Outsourcing is found to have no significant impact on job stability in the manufacturing sector, but it is associated with increased job stability in the service sector. Furthermore, especially in the service sector the effect of outsourcing varies across skill levels. An analysis of the different labour market flows shows that labour market transitions are not affected symmetrically by international outsourcing.
Subjects: 
Job stability
labour market transitions
worker flows
outsourcing
duration analysis
JEL: 
F16
J63
J23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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