Offshoring and Changes in Firms’ Domestic Employment: Evidence from the Danish Offshoring Survey

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Abstract

In this paper, we investigate, by merging the Danish linked employer-employee database with a Danish offshoring
survey, the difference in employment between offshoring and non-offshoring firms that are active in manufacturing industries and business services in Denmark. We measure the mean difference on a set of employment characteristics, i.e. employment growth, growth in high skilled employees, and growth in employees with a background in science and engineering, by using a partial propensity score matching approach. The findings of the analyses show that there are clear differences between Danish offshoring and non-offshoring firms in how the employee composition changes over time. The change in employment composition differ considerably between manufacturing industries and business services and on whether firms offshore administrative and technical business functions or other types of business functions.
Original languageEnglish
Publication date15 Jun 2011
Number of pages22
Publication statusPublished - 15 Jun 2011
EventDRUID Summer Conference 2011 on Innovation, Strategy, and Structure: - Copenhagen, Denmark
Duration: 15 Jun 201117 Jun 2011

Conference

ConferenceDRUID Summer Conference 2011 on Innovation, Strategy, and Structure:
Country/TerritoryDenmark
CityCopenhagen
Period15/06/201117/06/2011

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