Global outsourcing of human capital and the incidence of unemployment in the united states

• OGLOBLIN, Constantin ^[1]
  1. [1] Georgia Southern University

     Georgia Southern University

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Applied econometrics and international development, ISSN 1578-4487, Vol. 4, Nº. 3, 2004, págs. 5-24
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The study is the first to examine empirically the impact of the new wave of global job outsourcing on skill-specific patterns of involuntary unemployment in the U.S. using the latest individuallevel data. The estimates from a probit model show that, so far, global human-capital outsourcing has not shifted the risk of unemployment from lower-skilled to higher-skilled American workers. Overall, the probability of involuntary unemployment is negatively related with the worker’s level of education. For the outsourceable occupations, however, high-skilled workers are currently at a greater risk of unemployment than those with lower skills.