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Offshoring and Outsourcing Potentials: Evidence from German Micro‐Level Data

Author(s) -

Brändle Tobias,

Koch Andreas

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

the world economy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.594

H-Index - 68

eISSN - 1467-9701

pISSN - 0378-5920

DOI - 10.1111/twec.12439

Subject(s) - outsourcing , offshoring , relocation , german , econometrics , set (abstract data type) , principal component analysis , industrial organization , business , economics , empirical evidence , variation (astronomy) , measure (data warehouse) , economic geography , marketing , computer science , statistics , mathematics , database , geography , archaeology , programming language , philosophy , physics , epistemology , astrophysics

This paper provides two indicators that measure: (i) offshoring potentials (cross‐country geographical relocation) and (ii) outsourcing potentials (organisational relocation) separately at the level of jobs, occupations, tasks and industries. We use four waves of the BIBB / BA uA Labour Force Survey in Germany and apply principal component analysis based on a large set of potential determinants of offshoring and outsourcing derived from the literature. Our results show significant variation across these levels in the determinants of both dimensions. We provide a comprehensive empirical classification of the determinants of how easily jobs can be offshored and outsourced. This can serve as a basis for further research to investigate the economic effects of job offshoreability.

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