Fear of service outsourcing: is it justified?
分析服务外包的实际情况，发现外包规模仍很小，且美国等国的服务内包多于外包；以英国为例，行业就业增长与外包无负相关。
type="main" xml:lang="en"> The recent media and political attention on service outsourcing from developed to developing countries gives the impression that outsourcing is exploding. As a result, workers in industrial countries are anxious about job losses. This paper aims to establish what are the hypes and what are the facts. The results show that although service outsourcing has been steadily increasing it is still very low, and that in the United States and many other industrial countries ‘insourcing’ of services is greater than outsourcing. Using the United Kingdom as a case study, we find that job growth at a sectoral level is not negatively related to service outsourcing. — Mary Amiti and Shang-Jin Wei