The Oxford Handbook of Offshoring and Global Employment

The Oxford Handbook of Offshoring and Global Employment deals with a key issue of our time: How do globalization, economic growth and technological developments interact to impact employment? The book brings together eminent authors from a wide range of countries around the world, drawing on their diverse academic and policymaking backgrounds, and specific national or regional settings to assess how global economic changes have affected employment opportunities. The book is unique in a number of ways - It has a global reach, presenting analyses and viewpoints from both developed and developing countries, from all continents; its timing and context is particularly instructive, since most papers are located in the aftermath of the global financial crisis; and it addresses a wide range of questions-How do different types of offshoring and global linkages impact employment? How is the skill mix of the labor force impacted by globalization? How do institutional structures and regulations influence the outcome of globalization in developed and developing countries? Individual chapters analyze how the impact of global linkages on national economies is mediated through a number of structural aspects of the economy - its institutional and industrial structure, its resource base, its predominant firm type, its comparative advantage, and its regulatory practices. The chapters in the book cover both manufacturing and services sectors, and many chapters also address policy issues regarding innovation and job creation.

Auteur

Ashok Bardhan is a Senior Research Associate at the Fisher Center for Urban Economics, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley Dwight M. Jaffee is a Professor of Finance and Real Estate at the University of California, Berkeley Cynthia A. Kroll is a Senior Regional Economist and Executive Director for Staff Research at Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

Résumé
The Oxford Handbook of Offshoring and Global Employment deals with a key issue of our time: How do globalization, economic growth and technological developments interact to impact employment? The book brings together eminent authors from a wide range of countries around the world, drawing on their diverse academic and policymaking backgrounds, and specific national or regional settings to assess how global economic changes have affected employment opportunities. The book is unique in a number of ways - It has a global reach, presenting analyses and viewpoints from both developed and developing countries, from all continents; its timing and context is particularly instructive, since most papers are located in the aftermath of the global financial crisis; and it addresses a wide range of questions-How do different types of offshoring and global linkages impact employment? How is the skill mix of the labor force impacted by globalization? How do institutional structures and regulations influence the outcome of globalization in developed and developing countries? Individual chapters analyze how the impact of global linkages on national economies is mediated through a number of structural aspects of the economy - its institutional and industrial structure, its resource base, its predominant firm type, its comparative advantage, and its regulatory practices. The chapters in the book cover both manufacturing and services sectors, and many chapters also address policy issues regarding innovation and job creation.

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Acknowledgements Editor's note Section Ia: Globalization and Employment in the Developed World 1. The Global Lessons of Offshoring Ashok Bardhan, Dwight Jaffee, and Cynthia Kroll 2. On Technical Progress and the Gains and Losses from Outsourcing Ralph E. Gomory and William J. Baumol 3. Services Offshoring and Labor Demand in Europe Rosario Crinò 4. Services Offshoring and the Relative Demand for White-collar Workers in German Manufacturing Deborah Winkler 5. The Sector Bias of Offshoring: Empirical Importance for Labor-market Implications Daniel Horgos 6. How Much Does Offshoring Matter? Evolution of Imports and their Relation to Profits, Labor, and Firms' Strategies in France, 1990-2009 Fabien Besson, Cédric Durand, and Sébastien Miroudot Section Ib: Small, Developed, and Open Economies 7. The Welfare State as an Investment Strategy: Denmark's Flexicurity Policies Arthur Daemmrich and Thomas Bredgaard 8. The Impact of Overseas R&D on Domestic R&D Employment Matthias Deschryvere and Jyrki Ali-Yrkkö 9. The Impact of Offshoring by Services Firms on a Country's Comparative Advantage Désirée van Gorp and Desirée van Welsum Section II: Other Developed Countries 10. Offshoring and Japanese Firms Eiichi Tomiura, Banri Ito, and Ryuhei Wakasugi 11. Offshoring by Japanese Small and Medium Enterprises Yasuyuki Todo 12. Trade in Middle Products between South Korea and China: A Survey on the Extent of Offshore Production Sharing Gouranga Das and Hongyul Han 13. Offshoring, Inward Investment, and Export Performance in Ireland Frank Barry and Adele Bergin 14. Offshoring Higher Education: The Australian Experience Christopher Ziguras Section III: The BRIC Countries 15. Employment Expansion in Globalization: How Is China Responding to the Change in Comparative Advantage? Cai Fang, Du Yang, Wang Meiyan, and Qu Yue 16. The Changing Character of Indian Offshore ICT Services Provision, 1985-2010 Balaji Parthasarathy 17. Offshoring Strategy in Subsidiaries of Multinational Corporations in Brazil Paulo Roberto Gião and Moacir de Miranda Oliveira Júnior 18. Evaluation of Russia's Attractiveness as an IT Offshoring Destination Julia Kotlarsky, Natalia Levina, and Katerina Kuraksina Section IV: Other Parts of the Developing World 19. Job Quality in Offshored Business Services Naj Ghosheh and Jon Messenger 20. Does Industrial Upgrading Generate Employment and Wage Gains? Thomas Bernhardt and William Milberg 21. Regional Competitiveness in the Latin American Offshore Services Value Chain Karina Fernandez-Stark, Penny Bamber, and Gary Gereffi 22. Are NAFTA and Export-Oriented Industrialization Passé for Mexico's Economy? Global Lessons Enrique Dussel Peters 23. Kenya's IT-Enabled Services and Employment Consequences of Offshore Linkages Bob Bell 24. Industrial Strategy, Offshoring, and Employment Promotion in South Africa Miriam Altman Index Index