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Outsourcing and the demand for low-skill labour in German manufacturing : new evidence
Geishecker, Ingo - 2002
This paper analyses how international outsourcing has affected the relative demand for low skilled workers in Germany … disentangle international outsourcing and trade in final goods more accurately. The main finding is that during the 1990s … international outsourcing had a significant negative impact on the relative demand for low-skilled workers, explaining between 19 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260641
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The impact of international outsourcing on individual employment security: a micro level analysis
Geishecker, Ingo - 2006
The paper analyzes how international outsourcing affected individual employment security. The analysis is carried out … at the micro-level, combining monthly spell data from household panel data and industry-level outsourcing measures. By … international outsourcing significantly lowers individual employment security. Interestingly, the effect does, however, not differ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299112
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Winners and losers: fragmentation, trade and wages revisited
Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2004
Our paper investigates the link between outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and combining it with … industry level information on industries? outsourcing activities from input-output tables. By doing so we can arguably overcome … fragmentation has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277444
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Outsourcing and the demand for low-skill labour in German manufacturing : new evidence
Geishecker, Ingo - 2002
This paper analyses how international outsourcing has affected the relative demand for low skilled workers in Germany … disentangle international outsourcing and trade in final goods more accurately. The main finding is that during the 1990s … international outsourcing had a significant negative impact on the relative demand for low-skilled workers, explaining between 19 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437014
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Winners and Losers: Fragmentation, Trade and Wages Revisited
Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Our paper investigates the link between outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and combining it with … industry level information on industries’ outsourcing activities from input-output tables. By doing so we can arguably overcome … fragmentation has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822438
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Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern
Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - In: European Economic Review 61 (2013) C, pp. 132-152
The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the occupational task profile using rich individual-level panel data. Our main results suggest that, when only considering within-industry changes in offshoring, we identify a moderate wage reduction due to offshoring for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011048638
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Offshoring and job loss fears: An econometric analysis of individual perceptions
Geishecker, Ingo; Riedl, Maximilian; Frijters, Paul - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 5, pp. 738-747
We quantify the impact of offshoring and other globalisation measures on individual perceptions of job security. For the analysis we combine industry-level offshoring measures with micro-level data from a large German household panel survey and estimate ordinal fixed effects models. Our results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010580741
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Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern
Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - Center for European, Governance and Economic … - 2010
The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be offshored. Our analysis relates to recent theoretical contributions arguing that there is only a loose relationship between the suitability of a task for offshoring and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010980796
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Winners and losers: fragmentation, trade and wages revisited
Görg, Holger; Geishecker, Ingo - 2003
Our paper investigates the link between international outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and … combining it with industry level information on industries? outsourcing activities from input-output tables. By doing so we can … outsourcing has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261674
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Winners and losers: Fragmentation, trade and wages revisited
Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265402