Oxford Handbook of Offshoring and Global Employment

Herausgeber: Bardhan, Ashok; Kroll, Cynthia A; Jaffee, Dwight M

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 696
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 179mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1265g
• ISBN-13: 9780199765904
• ISBN-10: 0199765901
• Artikelnr.: 36694288

Autorenporträt

Ashok Bardhan is a Senior Research Associate at the Fisher Center for Urban Economics, Haas School of Business, 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 Dwight M. Jaffee is a Professor of Finance and Real Estate at the University of California, Berkeley

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* Editor's note
* Section Ia: Globalization and Employment in the Developed World
* 1 Offshoring and Employment: A Global Look at a Global Issue
* Ashok Bardhan, Dwight Jaffee, and Cynthia A. 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 Crino
* 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
Relationship 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 RandD on Domestic RandD 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 Berry 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
(MNCs) in Brazil
* Paulo Roberto Gião and Moacir de Miranda Oliveira Júnior
* 18 Evaluation of Russia's Attractiveness as IT Offshoring Destination
* Julia Kotlarsky, Natalia Levina, 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?
* William Milberg and Thomas Bernhardt
* 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 Passe 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