Skill-biased wage effects of domestic outsourcing
Labour Economics, cilt.98, 2026 (SSCI, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 98
- Basım Tarihi: 2026
- Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102849
- Dergi Adı: Labour Economics
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, ABI/INFORM, EconLit
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Domestic outsourcing, Subcontracting, Wage inequality
- Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
This study examines the impact of domestic outsourcing on the wages of workers performing outsourced tasks in Türkiye during the period 2012-2022, using an administrative employee-employer linked dataset. Outsourcing events are identified by tracking worker flows across firms with specific properties. Unlike existing studies, our dataset incorporates buyer-supplier transactions, enabling us to confirm that a relationship between the predecessor and successor firm b egins following the outsourcing event. This improves our ability to identify outsourcing events, which we use to explore wage effects of both high-skilled and low-skilled outsourcing. Our findings indicate that low-skilled workers experience wage losses from domestic outsourcing, while high-skilled, professional workers benefit, suggesting that domestic outsourcing may be one of the factors contributing to rising wage inequality.