Fear of Service Outsourcing: Is It Justified?
IMF Working Papers, October 1, 2004
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- Fear of Service Outsourcing: Is It Justified?
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Bibliographic details
- Authors: Mary Amiti, Shang-Jin Wei
- Published: October 1, 2004
- Series: IMF Working Papers
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451859492.001
Main findings
- Media and political attention gives the impression that outsourcing is exploding; workers in industrial countries are anxious about job losses.
- Although service outsourcing has been steadily increasing it is still very low.
- In the United States and many other industrial countries "insourcing" is greater than outsourcing.
- At a sectoral level in the United Kingdom, job growth is not negatively related to service outsourcing.
Summary of objectives and approach
- Aim: establish what are the hypes and what are the facts regarding service outsourcing from developed to developing countries.
- Method: comparative analysis including a case study of the United Kingdom.
Case study: United Kingdom
- Finding: job growth at a sectoral level is not negatively related to service outsourcing.
Subject coverage and keywords
- Subject: Employment, Imports, Services sector, Unemployment, Wages
- Keywords: business service, intensity ratio, material outsourcing, outsourcing intensity, service outsourcing, WP
Content in this bundle
- Outsourcing of Services