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Technological Change and Outsourcing: Competing or Complementary Explanations for the Rising Demand for Skills during the 1980s?

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  • Anton Tchipev

    (Istituto di Ricerche Economiche (IRE), Facoltà di Scienze Economiche, Università della Svizzera Italiana)

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This paper combines two of the popular approaches used in the trade versus technology debate: the factor content approach and the cost-share regression across manufacturing industries. The resulting method allows to decompose skill upgrading at the industry level into a component attributed to outsourcing and a residual. Surprisingly, computer investment explains the component attributed to outsourcing better than the residual suggesting that technological change may have contributed to higher disintegration of production already during the 1980s.

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  • Anton Tchipev, 2006. "Technological Change and Outsourcing: Competing or Complementary Explanations for the Rising Demand for Skills during the 1980s?," Quaderni della facoltà di Scienze economiche dell'Università di Lugano 0609, USI Università della Svizzera italiana.
    • Handle: RePEc:lug:wpaper:0609
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    Keywords

    wage inequality; technological change; intermediate products; outsourcing; factor content;
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    JEL classification:

    • F16 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade and Labor Market Interactions
    • J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials

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