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  "title": "Fear of Service Outsourcing: Is It Justified?",
  "publication": "IMF Working Papers, October 1, 2004",
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  "summary": "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.",
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      "content": "- Media and political attention gives the impression that outsourcing is exploding; workers in industrial countries are anxious about job losses.\n- Although service outsourcing has been steadily increasing it is still very low.\n- In the United States and many other industrial countries \"insourcing\" is greater than outsourcing.\n- At a sectoral level in the United Kingdom, job growth is not negatively related to service outsourcing."
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      "content": "- Aim: establish what are the hypes and what are the facts regarding service outsourcing from developed to developing countries.\n- Method: comparative analysis including a case study of the United Kingdom."
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      "heading": "Case study: United Kingdom",
      "content": "- Finding: job growth at a sectoral level is not negatively related to service outsourcing."
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      "content": "- Subject: Employment, Imports, Services sector, Unemployment, Wages\n- Keywords: business service, intensity ratio, material outsourcing, outsourcing intensity, service outsourcing, WP\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Outsourcing of Services\n  - Outsourcing of Services (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Outsourcing of Services (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/wp/issues/2016/12/31/fear-of-service-outsourcing-is-it-justified-17688"
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    "Authors: Mary Amiti, Shang-Jin Wei",
    "Published: October 1, 2004",
    "Series: IMF Working Papers",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451859492.001",
    "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.",
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    "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.",
    "Finding: job growth at a sectoral level is not negatively related to service outsourcing.",
    "Subject: Employment, Imports, Services sector, Unemployment, Wages",
    "Keywords: business service, intensity ratio, material outsourcing, outsourcing intensity, service outsourcing, WP",
    "**Outsourcing of Services**"
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