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Fear of Service Outsourcing: Is It Justified?
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Series:
IMF Working Papers
Volume/Issue:
Volume 2004: Issue 186
Language:
English
Publication Date:
01 Oct 2004
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451859492.001
ISBN:
9781451859492
ISSN:
1018-5941
Pages:
41
Keywords:
WP; service outsourcing; business service; intensity ratio; outsourcing intensity; material outsourcing
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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.
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