Service Offshoring and Productivity in Western Europe

Using comparable industry-level data for nine Western European countries, this paper finds that the international relocation of service activities (service offshoring) exerts positive and economically large effects on domestic productivity. A one percentage point increase in the proxy for service offshoring (i.e., the share of imported private services in total non-energy input purchases) is found to raise Total Factor Productivity by about 0.5%.

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Year of publication:	2008-07
Authors:	Crinò, Rosario
Institutions:	KITeS, Centre for Knowledge, Internationalization and Technology Studies, Universita' Bocconi, Milano, Italy
Subject:	Service Offshoring \| Total Factor Productivity

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	KITeS Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Number 220 pages 16
Classification:	F1 - Trade
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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