TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Michel, Bernhard
AU  - Rycx, François
        TI  - Does Offshoring of Materials and Business Services Affect Employment? Evidence from a Small Open Economy
        PY  - 2009/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 4164
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp4164
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - supply and use tables
KW  - imported intermediate inputs
KW  - industry-level employment
KW  - panel data
KW  - offshoring
KW  - labour demand equations
        ER  -