01713cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF003203 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451859492 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Amiti, Mary. Fear of Service Outsourcing : Is It Justified? / Mary Amiti, Shang-Jin Wei. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2004. 1 online resource (41 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students 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" 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. Mode of access: Internet Wei, Shang-Jin. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2004/186 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2004/186/001.2004.issue-186-en.xml IMF e-Library