Davide, Castellani; De Benedictis, Luca; Horgos, Daniel - Fächergruppe Volkswirtschaftslehre, Helmut Schmidt … - 2011
This paper argues that indices of (business) service and material offshoring built on sectoral input-output data may actually measure something different than what we think they should. Applying shift-share analysis we decompose the variation over time of a commonly used class of such indices...