Offshore production and skill upgrading by Japanese manufacturing firms

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Head, K; Ries, J
• 署名单位: University of British Columbia
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-1996
• DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1996(01)00161-1
• 发表日期: 2002
• 页码: 81-105
• 关键词: Multinational enterprises; Outsourcing; skills wages; GLOBALIZATION

摘要

We investigate the influence of offshore production by Japanese multinationals on domestic skill intensity. Identifying relationships based on within variation in a panel of 1070 firms, we find that additional foreign affiliate employment in low-income countries raises skill intensity. The positive effect of FDI on domestic skill intensity, however, diminishes as investment shifts towards high-income countries. Increases in affiliate employment in low-income countries also raise a firm's reliance on finished goods purchases, suggesting that overseas employment affects domestic skill intensity because imports of final goods from foreign affiliates displace domestic production. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.