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- Title
OFFSHORING JOBS? MULTINATIONALS AND U.S. MANUFACTURING EMPLOYMENT.
- Authors
Harrison, Ann; McMillan, Margaret
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
OFFSHORE outsourcing; UNITED States manufacturing industries; MANUFACTURING industries personnel; EMPLOYMENT; MANUFACTURING industries; WAGES; INTERNATIONAL business enterprise employees
- Publication
Review of Economics & Statistics, 2011, Vol 93, Issue 3, p857
- ISSN
0034-6535
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1162/REST_a_00085