@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp982, author={Geishecker, Ingo and Görg, Holger}, title={Winners and Losers: Fragmentation, Trade and Wages Revisited}, year={2004}, month={Jan}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={982}, url={https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp982}, abstract={Our paper investigates the link between outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and combining it with industry level information on industries’ outsourcing activities from input-output tables. By doing so we can arguably overcome the potential endogeneity bias as well as other shortcomings that affect industry level studies. We find that fragmentation has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the real wage for workers in the lowest skill categories; this result is robust to a number of different specifications and definitions of outsourcing. Furthermore we find some evidence that high-skilled workers experienced increased wages due to fragmentation.}, keywords={wages;fragmentation;trade;outsourcing;skills}, }