Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
Working Papers,
Copenhagen Business School, Department of Economics
No 5-2021: Chinese Import Competition, Offshoring and Servitization
Grace Gu (), Samreen Malik (), Dario Pozzoli () and Vera Rocha ()
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Grace Gu: University of California Santa Cruz
Samreen Malik: New York University AD
Dario Pozzoli: Department of Economics, Copenhagen Business School, Postal: Copenhagen Business School, Department of Economics, Porcelaenshaven 16 A. 1. floor, DK-2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
Vera Rocha: Department of Strategy and Innovation, Copenhagen Business School, Postal: Copenhagen Business School, Department of Strategy and Innovation , Kilevej 14A, DK-2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
Abstract: This paper examines whether Chinese import competition increases the propensity for firms to offshore production or to cease any involvement in production by switching completely and permanently out of the manufacturing sector (servitization). Using a Danish employer-employee matched dataset covering a large sample of manufacturing firms over the 1995-2012 period, we find that import competition from China significantly increases offshoring but does not induce servitization. These findings are confirmed using various robustness tests as well as an analogous analysis of a Portuguese employer-employee matched dataset.
Keywords: Foreign competition; Offshoring; Servitization
39 pages, January 8, 2021
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