The effect of high‐tech services offshoring on skilled employment: intra‐firm evidence
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2013-01-14Author(s)
Tamayo, Mery Patricia
Huergo, Elena
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The offshoring of high‐tech services has greatly increased in recent years, with
consequences for firms demand for skilled employment in firms. This paper specifically
analyzes the relationship between R&D offshoring and the demand for R&D employment
using firm‐level data for Spanish manufacturing and services companies during the
period 2004‐2009. Estimating different specifications with panel data techniques, we
find that this association is statistically positive. In particular, for services firms a 1
percentage point increase in R&D offshoring raises the demand for researchers by about
11%. This suggests the existence of complementarity among them as productive inputs.
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