期刊名称：Economic Assessment of the Euro Area / Euroframe
出版年度：2005
卷号：SPR
出版社：The Economic and Social Research Institute
摘要：This paper investigates the impact of international outsourcing on total employment using two
digit manufacturing data for seven EU countries for the period 1995-2000. Estimates using OLS
first differences show that imported materials from the same industry originating from lowwage
countries have a significant and negative impact on total employment. The estimates
suggest that rising imports from low-wage countries may account for about a 0.25 percentage
points employment reduction per year between 1995-2000. Imported materials from
industrialised countries have no effect on employment. Furthermore, we find that the magnitude
of the effect differs across industries. Sample split regressions show that the impact of imported
materials from low-wage countries is not significantly different from zero in some industries
such as machinery, electrical, optical and transport equipment. Using quantile regressions we
also find that the effect of imported materials from low-wage countries is not significant at the
upper quartile of the conditional distribution of employment change.
关键词：International outsourcing, trade, labour demand.
