TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Geishecker, Ingo
AU  - Görg, Holger
        TI  - Winners and Losers: Fragmentation, Trade and Wages Revisited
        PY  - 2004/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 982
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp982
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - wages
KW  - fragmentation
KW  - trade
KW  - outsourcing
KW  - skills
        ER  -