Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35277 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3608
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Using German data from the Institute for Employment Research Establishment Panel, this paper constructs two main measures of outsourcing and examines their determinants and consequences for employment. There are some commonalities in the correlates of the two measures of outsourcing, as well as agreement on the absence of adverse employment effects across all industries. For one specification, however, some negative effects are reported for manufacturing industry, balanced by positive effects for the services sector for another. But there are no indications of survival bias. This is because the association between outsourcing and plant closings is predominantly negative, albeit poorly determined.
Subjects: 
Outsourcing
organizational change
employment change
plant closings
value added
JEL: 
F16
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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