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The impact of international outsourcing on labour market dynamics in Germany

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  • Braun, Sebastian

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Using an administrative data set containing daily information on individual workers' employment histories, we investigate how workers' labour market transitions are affected by international outsourcing. In order to do so, we estimate hazard rate models for match separations, as well as for worker flows from employment to another job, to unemployment, and to out of the labour force. Outsourcing is found to have no significant impact on job stability in the manufacturing sector, but it is associated with increased job stability in the service sector. Furthermore, especially in the service sector the effect of outsourcing varies across skill levels. An analysis of the different labour market flows shows that labour market transitions are not affected symmetrically by international outsourcing.

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  • Bachmann, Ronald & Braun, Sebastian, 2008. "The impact of international outsourcing on labour market dynamics in Germany," SFB 649 Discussion Papers 2008-020, Humboldt University Berlin, Collaborative Research Center 649: Economic Risk.
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    Job stability; labour market transitions; worker flows; outsourcing; duration analysis;
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    JEL classification:

    • F16 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade and Labor Market Interactions
    • J63 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
    • J23 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Demand

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