Does Outsourcing Reduce Wages in the Low-Wage Service Occupations? Evidence from Janitors and Guards

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The Employment Relationship and Inequality: How and Why Changes in Employment Practices are Reshaping Rewards in Organizations (2013, background): “For example, Van Jaarsveld and Yanadori (2011) compare outsourced versus internal call center workers using establishment-level data, and Dube and Kaplan (2010) examine the pay of janitors and security guards using CPS.”
Workplace Heterogeneity and the Rise of West German Wage Inequality (2013, methodology): “We then fit a series of 500 Tobit models separately by year, education (5 values: missing; no qualification; apprenticeship; some post secondary; and university graduate), and 10 year age range (20-29; 30-39; 40-49; 50-60), including the following variables: age; mean log wage in other years; fracti”
How Firms Shape Income Inequality: Stakeholder Power, Executive Decision Making, and the Structuring of Employment Relationships (2015, background): “Moreover, in a study of outsourcing of janitors and security guards, Dube and Kaplan (2010) found that outsourced workers earn routinely less than in-house employees, and that this is in large part due to mid- to high-paying jobs turning into lower-”
The Rise and Nature of Alternative Work Arrangements in the United States, 1995–2015 (2016, background): “Columns (4) to (6) present the corresponding regressions with the 2015 RPCWS data (although the 16See Goldschmidt and Schmieder (2017) and Dube and Kaplan (2010) for longitudinal evidence on the (approximately 10”