OFFSHORING, MULTINATIONALS AND LABOUR MARKET: A REVIEW OF THE EMPIRICAL LITERATURE

摘要: omica, CSIC Abstract. This paper reviews the empirical literature on effects of offshoring and foreign activities multinational enterprises developed countries' labour markets. Results suggest that material worsens wage inequality between skilled unskilled workers; it also seems to make employment more volatile, by raising elasticity demand risk job losses. Service exerts at most small negative total employment, changes composition workforce in favour high-skilled white- collar employees. Multinationals tend substitute domestic response relative wages across countries; substitutability is weak, however, mainly driven horizontal, market-seeking direct investments.