TY  - JOUR
AU  - Amiti,Mary
AU  - Wei,Shang-Jin
TI  - Fear of Service Outsourcing: Is It Justified?
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 10808
PY  - 2004
Y2  - October 2004
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w10808
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w10808.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Mary Amiti
International Research
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
33 Liberty St
New York, NY 10045-0001
E-Mail: Mary.Amiti@ny.frb.org

Shang-Jin Wei
Graduate School of Business
Columbia University
Uris Hall 619
3022 Broadway
New York, NY 10027-6902
Tel: 212/854-9139
E-Mail: shangjin.wei@columbia.edu
AB  - 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. This paper aims to establish what are the hypes and what are the facts. The results show that although service outsourcing has been steadily increasing it is still very low, and that in the United States and many other industrial countries "insourcing" is greater than outsourcing. Using the United Kingdom as a case study, we find that job growth at a sectoral level is not negatively related to service outsourcing.
ER  -