Plausibly Exogenous [1255] - Outsourcing (07/10/2023)
LHS Variable
Labor markets
RHS Variable
Domestic outsourcing
Source of Exogenous Variation
Brazil’s 1993 legalization which sharply increased the outsourcing of security guards — using North-South variation in pre-legalization court permissiveness and comparison of guards to less affected occupations
- Felix and Wong (2023), “Labor Market Effects of Domestic Outsourcing: Evidence from Legalization in Brazil”