Service offshoring and the demand for less-skilled labor : evidence from Germany

Schöller, Deborah

Service offshoring and the demand for less-skilled labor : evidence from Germany

dc.contributor.author	Schöller, Deborah	de
dc.date.accessioned	2024-04-08T08:39:55Z
dc.date.available	2024-04-08T08:39:55Z
dc.date.created	2008-02-18
dc.date.issued	2007
dc.description.abstract	Besides material offshoring, economists have started to analyze the impact of service offshoring on domestic employment. Services are of particular interest since their significance has grown in terms of both quantity and quality. One decade ago, most services were considered non-tradable, but the emergence of new information and communication technologies has contributed to overcoming geographical distance. The move towards the liberalization of international service trade has further accelerated this process. The empirical part of this paper first calculates German service offshoring intensities on a sectoral basis using input-output data. This measurement represents the proportion of imported service inputs used in home production. Germany?s average service offshoring intensity more than doubled from 1991 to 2003. In a next step, the impact of service offshoring on the demand for heterogeneous labor in Germany is estimated at a sectoral level including 28 manufacturing sectors. The partial static equilibrium model is based on a variable unit cost function in the general translog form allowing for quasi-fixed input factors. Two different skill-levels are taken into account. The estimation results indicate that service offshoring reduced the relative demand for less-skilled labor in the German manufacturing sectors by on average -0.06 to -0.16% per year between 1991 and 2000.	en
dc.identifier.swb	282504834
dc.identifier.uri	https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/5136
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:bsz:100-opus-2382
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Hohenheimer Diskussionsbeiträge; 287
dc.rights.license	publ-ohne-pod	en
dc.rights.license	publ-ohne-pod	de
dc.rights.uri	http://opus.uni-hohenheim.de/doku/lic_ubh.php
dc.subject	Service offshoring	en
dc.subject	Labor demand	en
dc.subject	Less-skilled labor	en
dc.subject	Globalization	en
dc.subject	Technological change	en
dc.subject.ddc	330
dc.subject.gnd	Globalisierung	de
dc.subject.gnd	Offshoring	de
dc.subject.gnd	Arbeitsmarkt	de
dc.title	Service offshoring and the demand for less-skilled labor : evidence from Germany	de
dc.type.dcmi	Text	de
dc.type.dini	WorkingPaper	de
local.access	uneingeschränkter Zugriff	en
local.access	uneingeschränkter Zugriff	de
local.bibliographicCitation.publisherPlace	Universität Hohenheim	de
local.export.bibtex	@techreport{Schöller2007, url = {https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/5136}, author = {Schöller, Deborah}, title = {Service offshoring and the demand for less-skilled labor : evidence from Germany}, year = {2007}, school = {Universität Hohenheim}, series = {Hohenheimer Diskussionsbeiträge}, }
local.export.bibtexAuthor	Schöller, Deborah
local.export.bibtexKey	Schöller2007
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local.faculty.number	3	de
local.institute.number	520alt	de
local.opus.number	238
local.series.issueNumber	287
local.series.title	Hohenheimer Diskussionsbeiträge
local.university	Universität Hohenheim	de
local.university.faculty	Fakultät Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften	de
local.university.institute	Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre (bis 2010)	de

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