Trade, Tasks, and Training: The Effect of Offshoring on Individual Skill Upgrading

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URI: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-opus-71152
http://hdl.handle.net/10900/48031
Dokumentart: WorkingPaper
Date: 2013
Source: University of Tübingen Working Papers in Economics and Finance ; 64
Language: English
Faculty: 6 Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Department: Wirtschaftswissenschaften
DDC Classifikation: 330 - Economics
Keywords: Offshoring
Other Keywords:
Tasks , Skill upgrading , On-the-job training
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Abstract:

We offer a theoretical explanation and empirical evidence for a positive link between increased offshoring and individual skill upgrading. Skill upgrading takes the form of on-the-job training, complementing the existing literature, which mainly focuses on the retraining of workers after a direct job displacement through offshoring. To establish a link between offshoring and on-the-job training, we introduce an individual skill upgrading margin into the small-open-economy version of the Grossman and Rossi-Hansberg (2008) model of offshoring. In our model offshoring, by scaling up workers’ wages, creates previously unexploited skill upgrading possibilities and, thus, leads to more on-the-job training. Using data from German manufacturing, we find strong empirical support for the prediction that increased offshoring is positively related to individual on-the-job training participation.

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