Does offshore outsourcing impact home employment? Evidence from service multinationals

Abstract

This paper investigates the impact of offshore outsourcing across 5746 European service multinational enterprises (MNEs) on employment at home. We estimate labour demand equations and specifically isolate the global financial crisis (GFC) by undertaking analysis through our longitudinal 19-year panel data, separately for the pre- (1997–2007) and crisis period (2008–2016). We distinguish between offshoring to high and low income countries, as well as between service industry groups. We show that there is some evidence that offshoring by location intensive service firms is associated with employment growth at home during the crisis period, while offshoring in information intensive industries in high income countries is associated with a reduction in employment at home, as firms offshore to be nearer to the client. Overall, our findings suggest that the crisis period has lessened the impact of offshoring service FDI on employment at home.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2017.09.051
Divisions: College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School > Economics, Finance & Entrepreneurship
College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School > Centre for Personal Financial Wellbeing
College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School
Additional Information: © 2017, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
Uncontrolled Keywords: Employment growth,FDI,OLI paradigm,Offshoring,Relocation,Service sector,Marketing
Publication ISSN: 1873-7978
Last Modified: 28 Nov 2024 08:08
Date Deposited: 27 Oct 2017 12:00
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2019-10-01
Published Online Date: 2017-10-21
Accepted Date: 2017-09-28
Authors: Driffield, Nigel
Pereira, Vijay
Temouri, Yama (ORCID Profile 0000-0003-3014-258X)

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