Offshoring and Labor Market Power: Comparing Belgian and Dutch Firms

IF 2.6 3区管理学 Q2 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR

Industrial Relations Pub Date : 2025-06-19 DOI:10.1111/irel.12394

Sabien Dobbelaere, Catherine Fuss, Mark Vancauteren

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Abstract

We study the relationship between offshoring and labor market imperfections at the firm level in Belgium and the Netherlands. In both countries, wage-markup pricing stemming from workers' monopoly power is more prevalent than wage-markdown pricing originating from firms' monopsony power. Offshoring is associated with a higher prevalence and intensity of wage markdowns, driven by an increase in productivity that is only imperfectly passed through into an increase in wages. The lower firm-level productivity-wage pass-through in Belgium, attributed to its more centralized bargaining structure, makes wage markdowns more responsive to offshoring.

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离岸外包和劳动力市场力量：比较比利时和荷兰公司

我们在比利时和荷兰的企业层面上研究了离岸外包与劳动力市场不完善之间的关系。在这两个国家，源于工人垄断力量的工资加价定价比源于公司垄断力量的工资降价定价更为普遍。离岸外包与更普遍和更强烈的工资下调有关，这是由生产率的提高所驱动的，而生产率的提高只是不完全转化为工资的增长。在比利时，由于其更集中的议价结构，较低的企业层面的生产率-工资传递使得工资下调更容易受到离岸外包的影响。

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Industrial Relations INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR-

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