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Service offshoring and productivity in Western Europe

Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: 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.
Institution: Bocconi University
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2111733206
FWCI: 3.214
Cites: 17
Cited by: 21
Related to: 10