TY  - GEN
TI  - International Outsourcing and the Skill-Specific Wage Bill in Eastern Europe
AU  - Egger, Peter
AU  - Stehrer, Robert
PY  - 2001
PB  - Vienna: The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw)
LA  - eng
KW  - ddc:330
KW  - C33
KW  - F14
KW  - F15
KW  - F16
KW  - F40
KW  - international outsourcing
KW  - wage effects
KW  - panel econometrics
AB  - The paper analyses the effects of international fragmentation in terms of intermediate goods trade on the dynamics of skill-specific real wage bills in manufacturing of three Central and East European countries (Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic). Both intermediate goods exports and imports of the CEECs exhibit a positive impact on the unskilled workers' wage bill. Since 1993, intermediate goods trade with the European Union alone has accounted for a reduction of about 58 per cent of the predicted annual change in the skilled-to-unskilled wage bill ratio in Hungary's manufacturing. The corresponding contribution was 31 per cent in the Czech Republic and 30 per cent in Poland.
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10419/203882
UR  - https://www.pollux-fid.de/r/base-ftzbwkiel:oai:econstor.eu:10419/203882
H1  - Pollux (Fachinformationsdienst Politikwissenschaft)
ER  -