Full Citation

Title: Service Offshoring and White-Collar Employment

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2010

ISBN:

ISSN:

DOI:

NSFID:

PMCID:

PMID:

Abstract: This paper empirically studies the effects of service offshoring on white-collar employment, usingdata for more than 100 US occupations over the period 19972006. A model of firm behaviour basedon separability allows derivation of the labour demand elasticity with respect to service offshoring foreach occupation. Estimation is performed with quasi-maximum likelihood, to account for high degreesof censoring in the employment variable. The estimated elasticities are then related to proxies for theskill level and the degree of tradability of the occupations. Results suggest that service offshoringis skill-biased, because it increases employment in more skilled occupations relative to less skilledoccupations. At a given skill level, however, service offshoring penalizes tradable occupations relativeto non-tradable occupations.

User Submitted?: No

Authors: Crino, Rosario

Periodical (Full): Review of Economic Studies

Issue: 2

Volume: 77

Pages: 595-632

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure

Countries: