| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w21366 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 21366 |
| The Rise of Domestic Outsourcing and the Evolution of the German Wage Structure | |
| Deborah Goldschmidt; Johannes F. Schmieder | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-07-20 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | The nature of the relationship between employers and employees has been changing over the last decades, with firms increasingly relying on contractors, temp agencies and franchises rather than hiring employees directly. We investigate the impact of this transformation on the wage structure by following jobs that are moved outside of the boundary of lead employers to contracting firms. For this end we develop a new method for identifying outsourcing of food, cleaning, security and logistics services in administrative data using the universe of social security records in Germany. We document a dramatic growth of domestic outsourcing in Germany since the early 1990s. Event-study analyses show that wages in outsourced jobs fall by approximately 10-15% relative to similar jobs that are not outsourced. We find evidence that the wage losses associated with outsourcing stem from a loss of firm-specific rents, suggesting that labor cost savings are an important reason why firms choose to contract out these services. Finally, we tie the increase in outsourcing activity to broader changes in the German wage structure, in particular showing that outsourcing of cleaning, security and logistics services alone accounts for around 10 percent of the increase in German wage inequality since the 1980s. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand ; Labor Compensation ; Labor Relations ; Industrial Organization ; Market Structure and Firm Performance ; Firm Behavior ; Other ; Accounting, Marketing, and Personnel |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21366 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/579039 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Deborah Goldschmidt,Johannes F. Schmieder. The Rise of Domestic Outsourcing and the Evolution of the German Wage Structure. 2015. |
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