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Abstract: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM EU COUNTRIES 1 (2005)
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@MISC{Falk05abstract:empirical,
author = {Martin Falk and Martin Falk and Yvonne Wolfmayr and Yvonne Wolfmayr},
title = {Abstract: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM EU COUNTRIES 1},
year = {2005}
}
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Abstract
This paper investigates the impact of international outsourcing on total employment using twodigit manufacturing data for seven EU countries for the period of 1995-2000. Estimates using OLS first differences show that imported materials from the same industry originating from low-wage countries have a significant and negative impact on total employment. The estimates suggest that rising intermediate imports from low-wage countries may account for an approximate reduction of 0.25 percentage points in employment per year. Sample split regressions show that the impact of imported materials from low-wage countries is statistically significant in industries with low skill intensity but not in skill intensive industries such as machinery, electrical, optical and transport equipment. JEL: F10, J31.
