Offshoring: Facts and numbers at the country level

Pablo Agnese and Ricart Joan Enric

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Abstract: Offshoring has lately received wide attention. Its potential effects, mainly to be materialized in employment and productivity dislocations, are yet to be fully assessed. However, some consensus has been attained as to how to proxy its theoretical definition at an aggregate level. Here we review the most conventional indices the economic literature has so far produced, and employ them to provide an overview of the extent of the phenomenon for a group of countries. Contrary to common beliefs, our data reveal that offshoring is not exclusive of large developed economies. Further, we highlight the continuing prominence of the manufacturing over the services sector, and observe that while services offshoring is on the rise, it still represents a small fraction of total offshoring.

Keywords: offshoring; intermediate trade; aggregate data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 F40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-06-30
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