Service Offshoring and the Skill Composition of Labour Demand*
利用1990-2004年九西欧国家数据，发现服务离岸外包提高高、中技能劳动力相对需求，效果与物质离岸外包类似但机制不同。
Abstract This article studies the effects of service offshoring on the skill composition of labour demand, using novel comparable data for nine Western European countries between 1990 and 2004. The results show that service offshoring raises the relative demand for high‐ and medium‐skilled workers. Its effects are qualitatively identical, and quantitatively similar, to those of material offshoring. Additional evidence suggests, however, that the two types of offshoring may work through different channels: complementarity between imported services and domestic skills in the case of service offshoring, substitution of low‐skilled labour in the case of material offshoring. Overall, the effects are not large in economic terms.