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dc.contributor.author | Antonietti, Roberto | - |
dc.contributor.author | Antonioli, Davide | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2008-06-06T15:46:07Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2008-06-06T15:46:07Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2008-06-06T15:46:07Z | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1889/903 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This work explores the effects of production offshoring on the workforce skill composition of manufacturing firms. Its aim is to assess if the firms’ strategy to offshore production determines a domestic employment bias in favor of high-skilled workers. Using three repeated cross-sections of firm-level data over the period 1995-2003, we test the effect of production offshoring on the skill composition by looking at different measures of skills by occupational title and by employing a quasi-experimental analysis based on propensity score matching. Our results point to a modest,and in some cases down-skilling, impact of offshoring on the skill composition of Italian manufacturing: in particular, we find that firms that farmed out production activities in 1998-2000 generally employ a lower share of skilled, non manual, workers with respect to the counterfactual of non-delocalizing firms. Despite the usual findings about the negative impact of international delocalization on low-skilled employment, we find that middle-managers are the most affected category. Such evidence may find a twofold explanation: on the one hand, skilled workers can decline more than unskilled workers because of a substitution effect that is driven by the will of reducing not only redundant activities, but also to outsource complementary skill-intensive activities such as control and coordination for which middle-managers are employed for. On the other hand, skilled workers may decline in absolute terms, because of a quantity effect that occurs when firms decide to transfer managerial staff in order to coordinate and supervise the activities shifted abroad. | en |
dc.language.iso | Inglese | en |
dc.subject | Production offshoring | en |
dc.subject | Skill composition | en |
dc.subject | Propensity score matching | en |
dc.title | Production offshoring and the skill composition of Italian manufacturing firms: a non-parametric analysis | en |
dc.type | Conference lecture | en |
dc.contributor.sponsor | University of Bologna | - |
dc.contributor.sponsor | University of Ferrara | - |
dc.subject.miur | SECS-P/01 | en |
dc.subject.JEL | J24 | en |
dc.subject.JEL | F16 | en |
dc.subject.JEL | L24 | en |
dc.description.fulltext | open | en |
Appears in Collections: | XVI Conferenza Scientifica Nazionale AISSEC |
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