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Are U.S. White-Collar Really at Risk of Service Offshoring?

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Rosario Crino (CESPRI-Bocconi University, Milano,Italy.)

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This paper deals with recent concerns about potentially negative effects of service offshoring on U.S. white-collar workers. At this purpose, the paper uses highly disaggregated occupational data and develops a Flexible and Separable Translog model in which service offshoring is allowed to affect labor demand for both minor white-collar occupations and major white-collar groups. The model is estimated through Quasi-Maximum Likelihood to account for the presence of corner solutions. Results suggest that concerns about service offshoring are ill-founded: service offshoring stimulates labor demand for the white-collar and changes its skill distribution in favor of high-skilled occupations.

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Paper provided by CESPRI, Centre for Research on Innovation and Internationalisation, Universita' Bocconi, Milano, Italy in its series CESPRI Working Papers with number 183.

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Date of creation: Oct 2006
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Keywords: Service Offshoring; White-Collar Workers; Labor Demand; Censored Demand System Estimation.;

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F16 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade and Labor Market Interactions
J23 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Demand
C34 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Truncated and Censored Models

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