10.17169/FUDOCS_DOCUMENT_000000013964
Püschel, Julia
Task dependence of U.S. service offshoring patterns
Freie Universität Berlin
2012
Offshoring; Services; Tasks; Coordination: Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood
337 Internationale Volkswirtschaft
337 International economics
ddc:337
Universitätsbibliothek der FU Berlin
Universitätsbibliothek der FU Berlin
Universität <Berlin, Freie Universität> / Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft
2018-04-10
2012
Buch
http://dspace.ub.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/5640
10.17169/FUDOCS_document_000000013964
urn:nbn:de:kobv:188-fudocsdocument000000013964-1
39 S.
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.