Outsourcing of Services and the Productivity Recovery in U.S. Manufacturing in the 1980s and 1990s

By T. Raa, E. Wolff. 2001

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Service Offshoring, Productivity, and Employment: Evidence from the United States (2005, unknown): “Ten Raa and Wolff (2001) find evidence of positive effects of domestic outsourcing on U.”
The determinants of regional specialisation in business services: agglomeration economies, vertical linkages and innovation (2015, background): “…the organisation, coordination and distribution of manufacturing production resulting from new technologies has raised the service content of many manufactured goods, which goes well beyond the simple ‘outsourcing’ or ‘contracting out’ of services (Ten Raa and Wolff, 2001; Miozzo and Soete, 2001).”
Outsourcing, Imports and Labour Demand (2002, background): “In U.S. manufacturing, Fixler and Siegel (1999) report an increase in the share of purchased services in total costs from 10.1 percent in 1979 to 12.8 percent in 1988; see also Raa and Wolff (2001) .”
Productivity Impacts of Offshoring and Outsourcing: A Review (2006, background): “While replicating these results, a later study by ten Raa and Wolff (2001) also provided indirect evidence supporting the theory of Baumol’s disease.”