Outsourcing, Imports and Labour Demand
By M. Falk, B. Koebel. 2002
150 citations recorded by the source corpus.
This paper examines the effects of purchased services and imported intermediate materials on the labour demand for different skills in German manufacturing sectors. We derive and estimate a factor demand system based on the generalised Box-Cox cost function nesting both the normalised quadratic and the translog functional form. We find that the impacts of output and capital growth are more important in explaining the demand for heterogeneous labour than substitution effects between labour and non-labour inputs. Similarly, the increasing use of both imported materials and purchased services is a consequence of output growth rather than input substitution.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics
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Citations in the corpus
- The Effect of Offshoring on Labor Demand: Evidence from Sweden (2006, unknown): “LMiS , ( 6 ) where LM iF is the number of employees in foreign affiliates of multinationals in industry”
- The impact of international outsourcing on individual employment security: A micro-level analysis (2008, unknown): “…that the skill-biased effects of technological change and international outsourcing that have been found for Germany in aggregated industrylevel studies (e.g.,Falk and Koebel, 2002; Geishecker, 2006) are indirect and related to the lower probability of low-skilled workers to reenter employment.”
- The Own-Wage Elasticity of Labor Demand: A Meta-Regression Analysis (2014, background): “…admin 1961-1991 Bellmann et al. (2002) intermediate-run, conditional structural-form, exogenous wage, no FE firm-level, panel, admin 1993-1998 Falk and Koebel (2002) intermediate-run, conditional structural-form, exogenous wage, FE industry-level, panel, admin 1978-1990 Koebel (2002)…”
- Imposing and Testing Curvature Conditions on a Box–Cox Cost Function (2003, unknown): “Our results differ somewhat from those of Falk and Koebel (2002) and Fitzenberger (1999) in the case where capital is quasi-fixed.”