@techreport{Puschel2012Task,
abstract = {This work offers new insights into the determinants of service offshoring across countries and across service industries. Combining different data sources over the 2006-2009 period, I find that certain country characteristics affect offshoring costs for all services, while the effects of other characteristics depend on the coordination requirements of the respective service industry. The results from a zero-inflated Poisson pseudomaximum likelihood estimation indicate that the effects of a membership in NAFTA, and a common colonial past on service offshoring patterns depend on the task content of the services. These results are robust to the control for unobservable country-level heterogeneity. The quality of legal institutions, a common legal origin, geographic distance, and time zone differences influence offshoring patterns identically across all service industries.},
address = {Berlin},
author = {Julia P\"{u}schel},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {F14; F23; F20; 330; Offshoring; Services; Tasks; Coordination; Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood; Dienstleistungssektor; Auslandsverlagerung; Anforderungsprofil; Kolonialismus; Sch\"{a}tzung; USA; NAFTA-Staaten},
language = {eng},
number = {2012/15},
publisher = {Freie Univ., Fachbereich Wirtschaftswiss.},
title = {Task dependence of U.S. service offshoring patterns},
type = {School of Business & Economics, Discussion Paper: Economics},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/60465},
year = {2012}
}
