Service Offshoring, Productivity, and Employment : Evidence from the United States /

This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in U.S. manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000, using instrumental variables estimation to address the potential endogeneity of offshoring. It finds that service offshoring has a significant positive effect on productivity in the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Amiti, Mary
Other Authors: Wei, Shang-Jin
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2005.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2005/238
Online Access:Full text available on IMF