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| Title: | | Task dependence of U.S. service offshoring patterns  |
| Authors: | | Püschel, Julia |
| Issue Date: | | 2012 |
| Series/Report no.: | | School of Business & Economics, Discussion Paper: Economics 2012/15 |
| 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. |
| Subjects: | | Offshoring Services Tasks Coordination Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood |
| JEL: | | F14 F23 F20 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Diskussionsbeiträge, FB Wirtschaftswissenschaft, FU Berlin
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