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| Rosario Crinò |
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| ''Service offshoring and productivity in Western Europe'' |
| ( 2008, Vol. 6 No.35 ) |
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| 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. |
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JEL: F1 - Trade: General
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| Manuscript Received : Aug 18 2008 | | Manuscript Accepted : Sep 08 2008 |
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