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Service Offshoring, Productivity and Employment: Evidence from the US
Amiti, Mary; Wei, Shang-Jin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in US manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000, using … instrumental variables estimation to address the potential endogeneity of offshoring. It finds that service offshoring has a …. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the magnitude is smaller accounting for approximately …
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Fear of Outsourcing: Is It Justified?
Amiti, Mary; Wei, Shang-Jin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
The recent media and political attention on service outsourcing from developed to developing countries gives the impression that outsourcing is exploding. As a result, workers in industrial countries are anxious about job losses. This Paper aims to establish what are the hypes and what are the...
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