OFFSHORING JOBS? MULTINATIONALS AND US MANUFACTURING EMPLOYMENT

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Harrison, Ann; McMillan, Margaret
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Berkeley; National Bureau of Economic Research; Tufts University
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00085
• 发表日期: 2011-08
• 页码: 857-875
• 关键词: trade; IMPACT

摘要

Using firm-level data collected by the U. S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, we estimate the impact on U. S. manufacturing employment of changes in foreign affiliate wages. We show that the motive for offshoring and, consequently, the location of offshore activity, significantly affects the impact of offshoring on parent employment. In general, offshoring to low-wage countries substitutes for domestic employment. However, for firms that do significantly different tasks at home and abroad, foreign and domestic employment are complements. These offsetting effects may be combined to show that offshoring by U.S.-based multinationals is associated with a quantitatively small decline in manufacturing employment.