Narrow search
Showing 1 - 3 of 3
Cover Image
Service Offshoring and Productivity : Evidence from the United States
Amiti, Mary - 2006
The practice of sourcing service inputs from overseas suppliers has been growing in response to new technologies that … that service offshoring has a significant positive effect on productivity in the US, accounting for around 10 percent of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466745
Cover Image
Fear of Service Outsourcing : Is It Justified?
Amiti, Mary - 2004
The recent media and political attention on service outsourcing from developed to developing countries gives the … aims to establish what are the hypes and what are the facts. The results show that although service outsourcing has been … negatively related to service outsourcing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467881
Cover Image
Are Immigrants a Shot in the Arm for the Local Economy?
Hong, Gihoon - 2015
Most research on the effects of immigration focuses on the effects of immigrants as adding to the supply of labor. By contrast, this paper studies the effects of immigrants on local labor demand, due to the increase in consumer demand for local services created by immigrants. This effect can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457543