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Becker, Sascha O., Ekholm, Karolina and Muendler, Marc-Andreas (2012) Offshoring and the onshore composition of tasks and skills. Working Paper. Coventry, UK: Department of Economics, University of Warwick. CAGE Online Working Paper Series, Volume 2012 (Number 97).
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Abstract
We analyze the relationship between offshoring and the onshore workforce composition in
German multinational enterprises (MNEs), using plant data that allow us to discern tasks,
occupations, and workforce skills. Offshoring is associated with a statistically significant shift
towards more non-routine and more interactive tasks, and with a shift towards highly educated
workers. The shift towards highly educated workers is in excess of what is implied by changes
in either the task or the occupational composition. Offshoring to low-income countries—with
the exception of Central and Eastern European countries—is associated with stronger onshore
responses. We find offshoring to predict between 10 and 15 percent of observed changes
in wage-bill shares of highly educated workers and measures of non-routine and interactive
tasks.
Item Type: | Working or Discussion Paper (Working Paper) | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Business enterprises -- Germany, Employees -- Recruiting -- Germany, Labor supply -- Effect of education on -- Germany, Organizational change -- Germany -- Management | ||||
Series Name: | CAGE Online Working Paper Series | ||||
Publisher: | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | ||||
Place of Publication: | Coventry, UK | ||||
Official Date: | 2012 | ||||
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Volume: | Volume 2012 | ||||
Number: | Number 97 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 45 | ||||
Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 1 August 2016 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 1 August 2016 | ||||
Funder: | Volkswagenstiftung (VWS), Fritz Thyssen-Stiftung, Wallander Foundation, Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research, University of Warwick, European Union (EU), Ifo-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung | ||||
Version or Related Resource: | Becker, Sascha O., et al. (2009). Offshoring and the onshore composition of tasks and skills. Coventry: Centre for Economic Policy Research. (CEPR Discussion Paper no.7391). http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/45521 | ||||
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