Do Labour Market Institutions Matter?: Micro-level Wage Effects of International Outsourcing in Three European Countries

Ingo Geishecker; Holger Görg; Jakob Roland Munch

Do Labour Market Institutions Matter? Micro-level Wage Effects of International Outsourcing in Three European Countries

Ingo Geishecker, Holger Görg, Jakob Roland Munch

Department of Economics

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Abstract

This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the industry level, distinguishing outsourcing by broad region. Estimating the same specification on different data show that there are some interesting differences in the effect of outsourcing across countries. We discuss some possible reasons for these differences based on labour market institutions

Original language	English
Publisher	Economic Policy Research Unit. Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen
Number of pages	15
Publication status	Published - 2007

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Faculty of Social Sciences
outsourcing
individual wages

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