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“Does Outsourcing Reduce Wages in the Low-Wage Service Occupations? Evidence from Janitors and Guards”

Dube, Arindrajit, Kaplan, Ethan·2010·ILR Review
DOI 10.1177/001979391006300206
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Abstract

Outsourcing of labor services grew substantially during the 1980s and 1990s and was associated with lower wages, fewer benefits, and lower rates of unionization. The authors focus on two occupations for which they can identify outsourcing in those two decades using industry and occupation codes: janitors and guards. Across a wide array of specifications, they find that the outsourcing wage penalty ranged from 4% to 7% for janitors and from 8% to 24% for guards. Their findings on health benefits mirror those on wages. Evidence suggests that the outsourcing penalty was not due to compensating differentials for higher benefits or lower hours, skill differences, or the types of industries that outsourced. Rather, outsourcing seems to have reduced labor market rents for workers, especially for those in the upper half of the occupational wage distribution. Industries with higher historical wage premia were more likely to outsource service work.

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  1. Abraham Katharine, 1988, Employment, Unemployment and Hours of Work, 288

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Authors
Dube, A., & Kaplan, E.
Affiliations
Stockholm University (SE)
Venue
ILR Review
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2010-01
Volume
63
Issue
2
Pages
287-306
ISSN
  • 0019-7939 (ISSN-L)
  • 2162-271X
DOI
10.1177/001979391006300206
OpenAlex
W1479909922
Cited by
203
References
17
Citations by year
2026: 11 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 23 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 21 · 2020: 23 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 15 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 13 · 2015: 9 · 2014: 6 · 2013: 8 · 2012: 4
FWCI
13.60
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
  • Industrial and Labor Relations Review (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › General Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Global trade and economics
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Industrial relations › Employment, Labor, and Gender Studies
Keywords
labor outsourcing, wage penalty, cleaning workers, guards, health benefits, unionization, compensating differentials, service sector employment

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