Fear of service outsourcing
Subtitle: is it justified?
By: Mary Amiti, Shang-Jin Wei.
Contributors: Wei, Shang-Jin.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 10808; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 10808.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Contracting out -- Great Britain.; Globalization -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain.
Description: "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 facts.  The results show that although service outsourcing has been steadily increasing it is still very low, and that in the United States and many other industrial countries "insourcing" is greater than outsourcing.  Using the United Kingdom as a case study, we find that job growth at a sectoral level is not negatively related to service outsourcing"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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