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Service Offshoring and Productivity : Evidence from the United States
Amiti, Mary - 2006
The practice of sourcing service inputs from overseas suppliers has been growing in response to new technologies that … that service offshoring has a significant positive effect on productivity in the US, accounting for around 10 percent of …
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Fear of Service Outsourcing : Is It Justified?
Amiti, Mary - 2004
The recent media and political attention on service outsourcing from developed to developing countries gives the … aims to establish what are the hypes and what are the facts. The results show that although service outsourcing has been … negatively related to service outsourcing …
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Specialization and Regulation : The Rise of Professionals and the Emergence of Occupational Licensing Regulation
Law, Marc T. - 2004
This paper explores the origins and effects of occupational licensing regulation in late nineteenth and early twentieth century America. Was licensing regulation introduced to limit competition in the market for professional services at the expense of efficiency? Or was licensing adopted to...
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