TY - JOUR
T1 - Offshoring and job stability
T2 - Evidence from Italian manufacturing
AU - Lo Turco, A.
AU - Maggioni, D.
AU - Picchio, M.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - We study the relationship between offshoring and job stability in Italy in the period 1995–2001 by using an administrative dataset on manufacturing workers. We find that the international fragmentation of production negatively affects job stability. Service offshoring and material purchases from developed countries foster job-to-job transitions within manufacturing of all workers and white collars, respectively. However, the most detrimental effects for job stability come from material offshoring to low income countries which drives blue collar workers out of manufacturing. Therefore, policy interventions should especially focus on this latter category of workers more exposed to fragmentation processes and foreign competition
AB - We study the relationship between offshoring and job stability in Italy in the period 1995–2001 by using an administrative dataset on manufacturing workers. We find that the international fragmentation of production negatively affects job stability. Service offshoring and material purchases from developed countries foster job-to-job transitions within manufacturing of all workers and white collars, respectively. However, the most detrimental effects for job stability come from material offshoring to low income countries which drives blue collar workers out of manufacturing. Therefore, policy interventions should especially focus on this latter category of workers more exposed to fragmentation processes and foreign competition
U2 - 10.1016/j.strueco.2013.04.001
DO - 10.1016/j.strueco.2013.04.001
M3 - Article
VL - 26
SP - 27
EP - 46
JO - Structural Change and Economic Dynamics
JF - Structural Change and Economic Dynamics
SN - 0954-349X
IS - 1
ER -