TY  - JOUR
AU  - Amiti,Mary
AU  - Wei,Shang-Jin
TI  - Service Offshoring and Productivity: Evidence from the United States
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 11926
PY  - 2006
Y2  - January 2006
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11926
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11926.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
M2  - featured in NBER digest on 2006-03-01
AB  - The practice of sourcing service inputs from overseas suppliers has been growing in response to new technologies that have made it possible to trade in some business and computing services that were previously considered non-tradable. This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in US manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000. It finds that service offshoring has a significant positive effect on productivity in the US, accounting for around 10 percent of labor productivity growth during this period. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the magnitude is smaller accounting for approximately 5 percent of productivity growth.
ER  -