Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/282043 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Paper No. 351
Publisher: 
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190 - Rationality and Competition, München und Berlin
Abstract: 
I provide new empirical evidence on the direct and indirect impact of services offshoring on local employment and wages, using a unique dataset on firms in the UK for the period 2000-2015. Exploiting variation in firms' services offshoring across labour markets, I show positive aggregate local labour employment and wage elasticity to services offshoring. Spillovers from offshoring to non-offshoring firms explain the positive results, and services offshoring complementary to firms' production has a larger effect than the offshoring competing with firms' outputs. Finally, I show that services offshoring widens firms' employment and wage dispersion within local labour markets.
Subjects: 
services offshoring
local labour market
spillover effect
quantile analysis
JEL: 
F1
F16
J2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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