World Scientific Studies in International Economics: Volume 71

Offshoring

Causes and Consequences at the Firm and Worker Level

https://doi.org/10.1142/10969 | November 2018

Pages: 408

Edited by:
Holger Görg (Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Germany) and
Aoife Hanley (Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Germany)

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This volume brings together research papers dealing with the causes and consequences of offshoring. The first part considers causes and motives of offshoring. Using firm level data for countries such as Ireland, France, and the UK, this book looks at issues such as the increasing availability of business services or the internet, and improvements in intellectual property rights protection as stimulants of offshoring. The second part then looks at the implications of offshoring for the firms involved. Based on firm level data for Ireland, Sweden, the UK and a number of Emerging Market Economies, the book also focuses on productivity effects of offshoring as well as the implications for innovation activities of firms, and for profitability. The implications for workers of offshoring are dealt with in the third part of the volume. Studies are based on individual level data for Germany, Denmark and the UK and look at implications for individual level wages, in particular considering the importance of skills and occupations.

Contents:

Causes and Motives for Offshoring:
- Greasing the Wheels of International Commerce: How Services Facilitate Firms' International Sourcing (Peter Debaere, Holger Görg and Horst Raff)
- Availability of Business Services and Outward Investment: Evidence from French Firms (Holger Görg and Liza Jabbour)
- Outsourcing Foreign Services and the Internet: Evidence from Firm Level Data (Holger Görg, Aoife Hanley and Ingrid Ott)
- A Tale of Two Literatures: Transaction Costs and Property Rights in Innovation Outsourcing (Nishaal Gooroochurn and Aoife Hanley)
Implications at the Firm Level:
- Outsourcing, Foreign Ownership and Productivity: Evidence from UK Establishment-Level Data (Sourafel Girma and Holger Görg)
- Productivity Effects of International Outsourcing: Evidence from Plant-Level Data (Holger Görg, Aoife Hanley and Eric Strobl)
- Offshoring and Productivity: The Case of Ireland, Sweden and the United Kingdom (Chiara Criscuolo, Eva Hagsten, Aoife Hanley, Patrik Karpaty and Stefan Svanberg)
- Services Outsourcing and Innovation: An Empirical Investigation (Holger Görg and Aoife Hanley)
- Outsourcing, Importing and Innovation: Evidence from Firm-Level Data for Emerging Economies (Ursula Fritsch and Holger Görg)
- Does Outsourcing Increase Profitability? (Holger Görg and Aoife Hanley)
- Labour Demand Effects of International Outsourcing: Evidence from Plant-Level Data (Holger Görg and Aoife Hanley)
Labour Market Consequences at the Worker Level:
- International Outsourcing and the Skill Structure of Labour Demand in the United Kingdom (Alexander Hijzen, Holger Görg and Robert C Hine)
- Winners and Losers: A Micro-Level Analysis of International Outsourcing and Wages (Ingo Geishecker and Holger Görg)
- Do Labour Market Institutions Matter? Micro-Level Wage Effects of International Outsourcing in Three European Countries (Ingo Geishecker, Holger Görg and Jakob Roland Munch)
- Services Offshoring and Wages: Evidence from Micro Data (Ingo Geishecker and Holger Görg)
- Offshoring, Wages and Job Security of Temporary Workers (Holger Görg and Dennis Görlich)
- Offshoring, Tasks, and the Skill-Wage Pattern (Daniel Baumgarten, Ingo Geishecker and Holger Görg)

Readership: Graduate students and researchers in the fields of globalization, international economics, international trade and business.

Holger Görg is Director of the Kiel Centre for Globalization at the Institute for the World Economy, Kiel, Germany. He has been Professor of International Economics at the Kiel Institute and the University of Kiel, Germany, since 2008. He is also affiliated with the Tuborg Research Centre for Globalisation and Firms, Aarhus University, the Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy at the University of Nottingham, and IZA. Before joining Kiel he was on the staff at the University of Nottingham, the University of Ulster at Jordanstown and University College Cork. He completed a PhD in Economics in 1999 at Trinity College Dublin. His research interests are in empirical international trade and industrial organisation focusing in particular on the activities of multinational companies, foreign direct investment, and international outsourcing. He has published widely in international journals, including the Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of International Economics, European Economic Review, and Economic Journal. Prof. Görg has also worked as consultant for, among others, The World Bank, European Commission, UN Economic Commission for Africa, UN Industrial Development Organization, Inter-American Development Bank, and various governments.

Aoife Hanley was Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham before taking up her position at Kiel's Institute for the World Economy in 2008 where she is currently Professor for Applied Economics of the Firm. Her previous work explores the impact of exporting, outsourcing or work practices changes on the innovation or productivity of firms. She also focusses on CSR and knowledge transfer in global value chains.