This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry … information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals … negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit from services offshoring in terms of higher real wages. Hence, offshoring has …

This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry … information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals … negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit from services offshoring in terms of higher real wages. Hence, offshoring has …

This paper investigates the role of the rise of services in the narrowing of gender gaps in hours and wages in recent … goods, services and home production, in which women have a comparative advantage in producing market and home services. The … rise of services, driven by structural transformation and marketization of home production, acts as a gender-biased demand …

richer workers demand more low skill-intensive services (such as cleaning and personal services) but also more skill …-intensive services (such as education and professional services). The parametrization of a simple model suggests that this induced demand …

and services as well as between different types of service sub-sectors. The paper takes manufacturing, a sector dominated …-skill services (hotels and restaurants, cleaning). We find that dynamic job creation in these segments of the service sector was …

- hold for knowledge intensive services. Combining the models of Crepon et al. (1998) and of Ackerberg et al. (2015), allows … intensive services benefit from innovation activities in the sense that these activities causally increase their labor … intensive services …

rigidity in services vs. manufacturing. We observe that wage freezes are significantly more frequent and wage cuts less … frequent in services. Reasons preventing wage cuts reported by employers suggest that fear of excess worker turnover could …