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The skill composition in the light of sourcing:offshoring and inshoring
Örebro University, Örebro University School of Business.
2014 (English)Licentiate thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Örebro: Orebro University , 2014. , p. 73
Keywords [en]
Offshoring, firm level data, relative employment, translog cost function
National Category
Economics
Research subject
Economics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-35277OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-35277DiVA, id: diva2:725213
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Available from: 2014-06-20 Created: 2014-06-10 Last updated: 2017-10-17Bibliographically approved
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1. Firm level effects of offshoring of goods and services on relative labor demand
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Firm level effects of offshoring of goods and services on relative labor demand
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Abstract [en]

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. Actual firm-level trade data allow us to distinguish between goods and service offshoring, as well as sourcing country. 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 serviceoffshoring to middle income countries.

Keywords
Offshoring, firm level data, relative employment, translog cost function
National Category
Economics
Research subject
Economics
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-35855 (URN)
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This paper is published

Andersson, L., Karpaty, P., & Savsin, S. (2016). Firm-level effects of offshoring of materials and services on relative labor demand. Review of World Economics, , 1-30. doi:10.1007/s10290-015-0243-8

Available from: 2014-08-05 Created: 2014-08-05 Last updated: 2017-10-17Bibliographically approved
2. Labour Demand, Offshoring and Inshoring: Evidence from Swedish Firm-level Data
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Labour Demand, Offshoring and Inshoring: Evidence from Swedish Firm-level Data
2017 (English)In: The World Economy, ISSN 0378-5920, E-ISSN 1467-9701, Vol. 40, no 2, p. 240-274Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The objective of this paper was to analyse effects on firm–level relative demand for skilled labour due to imports of intermediates (offshoring) and exports of intermediates (inshoring). The study is based on a data set of Swedish manufacturing firms, 1997–2002, using trade flows in intermediate goods and services, respectively. Descriptive data show that goods inshoring is much larger than goods offshoring, while the reverse is true for services. There is, however, a strong increase in services inshoring over the study period. Controlling for potential endogeneity in offshoring and inshoring, our results indicate that there is a positive effect of services offshoring on the skill composition of workers in Swedish firms, while no such causality can be established from inshoring.

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John Wiley & Sons, 2017
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Economics
Research subject
Economics
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urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-35856 (URN)10.1111/twec.12396 (DOI)000396889400001 ()2-s2.0-84964389348 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2014-08-05 Created: 2014-08-05 Last updated: 2018-05-16Bibliographically approved

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