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| Antonietti, Roberto; Antonioli, Davide. |
| This work explores the effects of cross-border relocation of production on the skill composition of Italian manufacturing firms. Its aim is to assess if the firms strategy to offshore production activities towards cheap labor countries determines a bias in the relative employment of skilled versus unskilled workers. Using a balanced panel of firm-based data across the period 1995-2003, we test this skill-bias hypothesis by means of a counterfactual experiment in which we employ a difference-in-differences propensity score matching estimator in order to control for selectivity bias without relying on a specific functional form of the relations of interest. In line with the literature, our results point to confirm a general, although weak, skill bias effect... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Production Offshoring; Skill Bias; Difference-in-Differences; Propensity; Labor and Human Capital; J24; F16; L24. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7436 |
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| Antonietti, Roberto; Cainelli, Giulio. |
| Aim of this paper is to explore the main drivers of outsourcing of knowledge intensive business services by Italian manufacturing firms. While anecdotal and empirical evidence has emphasized labour cost and scale economies as behind firms choices to outsource production or service activities, here we focus on spatial agglomeration and technology as important factors. Using microeconomic data on a repeated cross-section of Italian manufacturing firms for the period 1998-2003, we develop a two-stage model in order to avoid selection bias: first, we estimate the determinants of the firm's decision to outsource business-related services; second, we estimate the main factors underlying the intensity and complexity of KIBS outsourcing, expressed by the number... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: KIBS; Service Outsourcing; R&D; ICT; Spatial Agglomeration; Labor and Human Capital; L24; L84; R32; R12. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/8221 |
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