%0 Report
        %A Michel, Bernhard
%A Rycx, François
        %T Does Offshoring of Materials and Business Services Affect Employment? Evidence from a Small Open Economy
        %D 2009
        %8 2009 May
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 4164
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp4164
        %X The fear of massive job losses has prompted a fast-growing literature on offshoring and its impact on employment in advanced economies. This paper examines the situation for Belgium. It improves the offshoring intensity measure by computing a volume measure of the share of imported intermediates in output and it is among the first to address both materials and business services offshoring to high-wage and low-wage countries. Estimations of static and dynamic industry-level labour demand equations augmented by offshoring intensities do not reveal a significant impact of either materials or business services offshoring on total employment for Belgium between 1995 and 2003.
        %K supply and use tables
%K imported intermediate inputs
%K industry-level employment
%K panel data
%K offshoring
%K labour demand equations