... relatively more domestic jobs involving non-routine and interactive tasks. But offshoring is far from the only explanation for the shift towards more educated employees carrying out more ... are two important lessons from their work,First, at the level of the individual firm, offshoring seems to be associated with a shift towards more educated workers. We also report a positive correlation between the ...

... s USA Today's Engineer site today focuses on the often forgotten--or at least ignored--risk of offshoring. National security. The full article is at: The most salient quote is: "One ... seeing now, the cycle lasts less than ten years, and the first (and second) wave of offshorers are now offshoring themselves. Does this increase product security? Statistics argue otherwise (ref. WEF ...

... Germany to assess how the job composition at home changes when firms offshore abroad: How do offshoring firms reshape their domestic workforce? This column, using evidence from German ... firms have relatively more domestic jobs involving non-routine and interactive tasks. But offshoring is far from the only explanation for the shift towards more educated employees carrying out more advanced tasks.

... of life in a town of just under 30,000 people, he said. But what's often called "rural offshoring" is not expected to make much of a dent in the overall push to offshore outsourcing. In India, the salary for a ... overseas. According to Kokes, the 25% to 40% cost difference remains a powerful incentive for offshoring. Sitel employs 60,000 people worldwide, with 12,000 based in the U.S. ...

... Massive wage jumps in India and China of up to 100% a year mean that cost advantages of outsourcing offshoring to these countries is rapidly disappearing. What next? Will jobs move back to America or Europe? Comment by Futurist Dr Patrick ... 40% in india for experienced business leaders … Technorati Tags: Dr Patrick Dixon, Inflation In China, Outsourcing And Offshoring, Salary, Wage Inflation

... of the relevant information, but the entire three parts are worth a read. Also note that this is not the first time that this issue has made headlines in recent years. At issue here are both the offshoring of quality jobs and the problems with regulating safety under today's trade model. Some of the money quotes from the first NPR story regarding the latter: "The FAA does not ...