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The Impact Of Offshore Outsourcing On Industrial Structure In China

Posted on:2012-07-04Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2249330392958149Subject:International Trade
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Offshore service outsourcing is another wave of international transfer of industry aftermanufacturing Outsourcing. There will be transfer of capital, technology, managementexperience along with outsourcing which will upgrade industrial structure for the hostcountries. Service outsourcing has several features such as low pollution, lowconsumption,high technology and high additional value. Sizing the opportunity ofoutsourcing is a wise choice to promote the development of our service industry and tooptimize industrial structure.The paper studies the causes of outsourcing, its economic effects, the evolution lawof industrial structure and analyses their present situation in China and uses traditionalresearch method from theoretical research to practical approaches then giving policyproposals. At first, it is about the mechanism of how offshore service outsourcing workson industrial structure. Secondly, combining with data from1995to2009, the thesis setsan empirical model to prove the mechanism by using mediator program, co-integrationanalysis and Granger causality test. It demonstrates that outsourcing plays an importantpart in the upgrading of industrial structure by the mediator effect of technology progressand factor allocation. But the mediator effect of technology progress is not significantusing current data due to the following two main reasons:firstly, the quantity of data islack and quality is limited. Secondly, most of service outsourcing our country undertakesis in the low-end value chain at present. At last, according to our specific situation, thepaper proposes several policy suggestion about how to develop outsourcing and toupgrade industrial structure. On the basis of research, the paper suggests that the best wayto upgrade the industrial structure is to strengthen innovation, to upgrade technology andto optimize factor allocation.
Keywords/Search Tags:Offshore outsourcing, Industrial structure, Mediator effect
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