http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/service_offshoring_and_productivity/ Online Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:17:13 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/service_offshoring_and_productivity/comment-page-1/#comment-92024 spencer Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:23:14 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2006/07/service_offshoring_and_productivity/#comment-92024 I do not have access to the paper, but I wonder how the they got around the data problems. When a firm offshores a good it enters the US through a port and is recorded in the trade data so we can subtract it from consumption to get output or GDP. But if a service is offshored it will just show up in the home firms computer one morning --back office operations for example -- and generally is not recorded in the official data so it can not be subtracted from consumption to get a true estimate of production. I do not have access to the paper, but I wonder how the they got around the data problems. When a firm offshores a good it enters the US through a port and is recorded in the trade data so we can subtract it from consumption to get output or GDP. But if a service is offshored it will just show up in the home firms computer one morning --back office operations for example -- and generally is not recorded in the official data so it can not be subtracted from consumption to get a true estimate of production.

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