Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/60465 
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Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Diskussionsbeiträge No. 2012/15
Publisher: 
Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Berlin
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

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