Offshoring, labor market mobility and wage growth

Abstract:This paper uses longitudinal linked employer-employee data to study how firms’ offshoring decisions affect labor market mobility and the wage growth of their employees. The results show that offshoring affects mobility primarily in occupations that are easily offshored. Wage growth, however, is weaker in the occupations that are offshorable, even if the employer has not offshored, and for employees whose initial employer has offshored some activities, irrespective of their occupation

Publication info

Series
ETLA Working Papers 6
Date
28.02.2013
Keywords
wages, job mobility, linked employer-employee data, unemployment
ISSN
2323-2439
Pages
10
Price
15 €
Availability of print version
Available
Language
English