Services Offshoring and its Impact on the Labor Market
Services Offshoring and its Impact on the Labor Market

Author: Deborah Winkler

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-09-18

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 3790821993

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Services – from information technology to research to finance – are now as subject to international trade as goods have been for decades. What are the labor market consequences of the recent surge in services offshoring? While offshoring has traditionally been found to affect only less-skilled workers in industrialized countries, this study finds that services offshoring also has negative consequences for high-skilled workers. Focusing on the case of Germany, Deborah Winkler shows how services offshoring has grown, who is most affected and what policy makers can do. Winkler measures the impact of services offshoring on German productivity, employment, and employment structure. She provides a well-balanced synthesis of theoretical insights, detailed empirical analysis, and economic policy recommendations. Although her main focus is on the case of Germany, many insights are also applicable to other developed countries.

Quantitative Analysis Of Newly Evolving Patterns Of International Trade: Fragmentation, Offshoring Of Activities, And Vertical Intra-industry Trade
Quantitative Analysis Of Newly Evolving Patterns Of International Trade: Fragmentation, Offshoring Of Activities, And Vertical Intra-industry Trade

Author: Robert M Stern

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2012-03-23

Total Pages: 531

ISBN-13: 9814452173

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Quantitative Analysis of Newly Evolving Patterns of International Trade offers a variety of perspectives on new forms and developments of international trade and related activities for Japan, the United States, China, and some other important trading countries, to develop new methods and data for measuring the factor contents of emerging new modes of international trade. Such methods and data are crucially important for evaluating impacts of the new modes on factor markets in the United States, Japan, and other major trading countries, and also for forecasting the future development of world trade and foreign direct investment (FDI), evaluating welfare gains from trade, estimating impacts of free trade agreements, and designing effective trade and FDI policies.

Offshoring and Employment
Offshoring and Employment

Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Publisher: Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13:

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Offshoring - the transfer of an industrial activity abroad - is defined in detail and its effects examined.

The Factory-free Economy
The Factory-free Economy

Author: Lionel Fontagné

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 019877916X

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An economic analysis of de-industrialization that considers the ongoing transformation of the industrial economies and the consequences for economic policy.

Outsourcing and Offshoring in Canada
Outsourcing and Offshoring in Canada

Author: John R. Baldwin

Publisher:

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 49

ISBN-13: 9780662487050

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"The paper has three main objectives. First, it presents the long-term trends in outsourcing and offshoring across Canadian industries. Second, it examines the relationship between offshoring and changes in trade patterns at the industry level. It focuses on two major drivers that some have suggested are behind the recent trends toward offshoring: globalization and technological changes associated with information and communications technologies. Third, the paper examines the economic impact of offshoring by investigating the relationship between the extent of offshoring and productivity growth, shifts to high value-added activities and changes in labour markets."--Document.

The Oxford Handbook of Offshoring and Global Employment
The Oxford Handbook of Offshoring and Global Employment

Author: Ashok Bardhan

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2013-05-23

Total Pages: 682

ISBN-13: 0199765901

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The book contains essays from around the world addressing how globalization and offshoring have affected employment structure and job creation in both developing and developed countries.

The Offshoring of Engineering
The Offshoring of Engineering

Author: National Academy of Engineering

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2008-08-14

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0309114837

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The engineering enterprise is a pillar of U.S. national and homeland security, economic vitality, and innovation. But many engineering tasks can now be performed anywhere in the world. The emergence of "offshoring"- the transfer of work from the United States to affiliated and unaffiliated entities abroad - has raised concerns about the impacts of globalization. The Offshoring of Engineering helps to answer many questions about the scope, composition, and motivation for offshoring and considers the implications for the future of U.S. engineering practice, labor markets, education, and research. This book examines trends and impacts from a broad perspective and in six specific industries - software, semiconductors, personal computer manufacturing, construction engineering and services, automobiles, and pharmaceuticals. The Offshoring of Engineering will be of great interest to engineers, engineering professors and deans, and policy makers, as well as people outside the engineering community who are concerned with sustaining and strengthening U.S. engineering capabilities in support of homeland security, economic vitality, and innovation.

Offshoring of Services
Offshoring of Services

Author: Sigurd R. Nilsen

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2006-04

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9781422304945

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Much attention has focused on the offshoringÓ of services to lower-wage locations abroad. Offshoring generally refers to an org. purchase of goods or services from abroad that were previously produced domestically. Extensive public debate has arisen about both the potential benefits of services offshoring, such as lower consumer prices & higher U.S. productivity, as well as the potential costs, such as increased job displacement for selected U.S. workers. This report: provides an overview of experts' views on the potential impacts of services offshoring; describes the types of policies that have been proposed in response to offshoring; & highlights some key areas where add'l. research might help advance the debate about offshoring. Illus.

Globalization, Outsourcing and Labour Development in ASEAN
Globalization, Outsourcing and Labour Development in ASEAN

Author: Shandre Thangavelu

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-06-07

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1135050007

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This book fills an important gap in the literature looking at the labour market effects of outsourcing from a regional economic perspective. Thangavelu is a respected academic in the field at the National University of Singapore and is well published in journals.