Service offshoring and productivity in Western Europe

Using comparable data for nine Western European countries, this paper finds that service offshoring exerts positive and economically large effects on domestic productivity. A one percentage point increase in service offshoring is found to raise Total Factor Productivity by 0.5-0.6 percent.

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Year of publication:	2008
Authors:	Crinò, Rosario
Published in:	Economics Bulletin. - AccessEcon, ISSN 1545-2921. - Vol. 6.2008, 35, p. 1-8
Publisher:	AccessEcon

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Extent:	application/pdf
Type of publication:	Article
Language:	English
Classification:	F1 - Trade
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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