The politics and economics of offshore outsourcing Export

@article{citeulike:901031, abstract = {This paper reviews the political uproar over offshore outsourcing connected with the release of the Economic Report of the President (ERP) in February 2004, examines the differing ways in which economists and non-economists talk about offshore outsourcing, and assesses the empirical evidence on the importance of offshore outsourcing in accounting for the weak labor market from 2001 to 2004. Even with important gaps in the data, the empirical literature is able to conclude that offshore outsourcing is unlikely to have accounted for a meaningful part of the job losses in the recent downturn or contributed much to the slow labor market rebound. The empirical evidence to date, while still tentative, actually suggests that increased employment in the overseas affiliates of US multinationals is associated with more employment in the US parent rather than less.}, author = {Gregory and Swagel, Phillip}, citeulike-article-id = {901031}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmoneco.2006.05.009}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0304393206000985}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6VBW-4KGPPNN-1/2/3a501e09c90ffe2420b1a0f52c4c9adb}, doi = {10.1016/j.jmoneco.2006.05.009}, journal = {Journal of Monetary Economics}, keywords = {development, globalisation}, month = {July}, number = {5}, pages = {1027--1056}, posted-at = {2006-10-17 06:08:04}, priority = {2}, title = {The politics and economics of offshore outsourcing}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmoneco.2006.05.009}, volume = {53}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:901031 L3 - citeulike-article-id:901031 N2 - This paper reviews the political uproar over offshore outsourcing connected with the release of the Economic Report of the President (ERP) in February 2004, examines the differing ways in which economists and non-economists talk about offshore outsourcing, and assesses the empirical evidence on the importance of offshore outsourcing in accounting for the weak labor market from 2001 to 2004. Even with important gaps in the data, the empirical literature is able to conclude that offshore outsourcing is unlikely to have accounted for a meaningful part of the job losses in the recent downturn or contributed much to the slow labor market rebound. The empirical evidence to date, while still tentative, actually suggests that increased employment in the overseas affiliates of US multinationals is associated with more employment in the US parent rather than less. IS - 5 JF - Journal of Monetary Economics EP - 1056 TI - The politics and economics of offshore outsourcing VL - 53 SP - 1027 KW - development KW - globalisation AU - Gregory AU - Swagel, Phillip PY - 2006/07// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmoneco.2006.05.009 ER -