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Title: Services offshoring and wages: Evidence from micro data

Author(s): Ingo Geishecker and Holger Görg

Publication Date: November 2011

Keyword(s): individual level, services offshoring and wages

Programme Area(s): International Trade and Regional Economics

Abstract: This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual-level data combined with industry information on offshoring for the United Kingdom. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low- and medium-skilled individuals negatively. By contrast, skilled workers may benefit from services offshoring in terms of higher real wages. Hence, offshoring has contributed to a widening of the wage gap between skilled and less skilled workers. This result is obtained while controlling for individual and sectoral observed and unobserved heterogeneity. In particular, our empirical model also controls for the impact of technological change and offshoring of materials.

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Geishecker, I and Görg, H. 2011. 'Services offshoring and wages: Evidence from micro data'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=8628