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Finance & Development June 1, 2007 Jaumotte & Tytell	Globalization of Labor Globalization is a vital force sustaining world growth, but policymakers need to ensure that all people benefit by strengthening access to education and training, adopting adequate social safety nets, and improving the functioning of labor markets.
IndustryWeek March 1, 2008 David Blanchard	The Biggest Challenges Facing Manufacturers -- IndustryWeek's 2008 Salary Survey Responses Offshore competition. Finding and retaining skilled labor. Rising costs. Government regulations. Sound familiar? Manufacturing managers share many of the same headaches and confront common challenges.
Finance & Development March 2008 David T. Coe	Jobs on Another Shore Outsourcing of service jobs to other countries could affect industrial countries' economies and attitudes toward globalization.
Job Journal June 1, 2008 Alesia Benedict	Career Pros: Steering Clear of Offshore Outsourcing Jobs most likely to get shipped overseas, and how to avoid being left adrift.
IndustryWeek December 1, 2007 David Blanchard	Sourcing in Low-Cost Countries: By The Numbers Top 5 reasons companies source in low-cost countries.
Reason June 2004 Adrian Moore	Importing Affluence Democrats and Republicans are now engaged in a partisan Three Stooges slap fight over who is more outraged by offshore outsourcing.
Finance & Development September 2010 Ceyda Oner	Back to Basics: What Constitutes Unemployment? Earlier this year, the International Labor Office announced that global unemployment last year reached the highest level on record. More than 200 million people, 7 percent of the global workforce, were looking for jobs in 2009.
Global Services August 8, 2008 Blackman & Schweyer	Proposition: Competitiveness of Rich Countries Workers in Decline There has been an ongoing notion that outsourcing causes dearth of employment opportunities for citizens in rich countries. They are becoming less productive and less educated than workforces in developing nations. How true is this fact?
BusinessWeek June 20, 2005 Michael J. Mandel	The End Of Upward Mobility? Not On Your Life Bleak stories aside, both rich and poor advanced over the past decade.
IndustryWeek March 1, 2009 David Blanchard	IndustryWeek's 2009 Salary Survey Comments on Manufacturing's Biggest Challenge: The Economy As part of the IndustryWeek 2009 Salary Survey, we asked the open-ended question: What is the biggest challenge facing the manufacturing industry today?
IndustryWeek July 1, 2006 John S. McClenahen	Outsourcing: Hedge the Low-Wage Wager Manufacturers are still chasing cheap labor around the world. But they'd be well advised not to place all of their outsourcing stake on it.
National Real Estate Investor December 15, 2003 Parke Chapman	IBM, Accenture to Move Jobs Offshore Real estate economists are becoming increasingly concerned about firms such as IBM sending thousands of jobs offshore.
Fast Company August 8, 2011 Rachel Z. Arndt	Labor Day Here is a look at the labor force, past and present.
HBS Working Knowledge December 1, 2006 Jim Heskett	How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved? By understanding labor quality, can we better confront anxieties about outsourcing and immigration?
Bank Systems & Technology August 1, 2007 Nancy Feig	Is China Going to Replace India as the Next Offshore IT Hub? According to a new report, some 200 million Chinese people are currently learning English, providing a growing pool of skilled labor that may compete with India over the next 10 years.
U.S. Banker June 2011 Mark R. Pawlak	Sizing Up the Labor Force A drop in unemployment is typically associated with growth in the labor force. But in the current market, that's not happening, which makes the Fed's job more difficult.
Real Estate Portfolio Jan/Feb 2004 Anatole Pevnev	Looking For Job Growth? Try Bangalore The outsourcing trend and what it means for the office real estate market
IndustryWeek July 1, 2006	Outsourcing's Next Steps When it's best not to chase cheap labor.
BusinessWeek August 5, 2010 Tom Keene	Tom Keene Talks to Robert Reich The former Labor Secretary on fixing the labor market, extending the Bush tax cuts, and Obama's economic team.
Entrepreneur November 2008 Jacquelyn Lynn	Location Is Key Labor cost isn't everything when it comes to a location for your business.
BusinessWeek August 25, 2003 Mandel & Madigan	Commentary: Outsourcing Jobs: Is It Bad? An accelerating pace is raising concerns over its effects. Two BusinessWeek economists debate whether that's good or bad
IndustryWeek November 1, 2007 David Blanchard	Just in Time -- The Cost of Doing Low-Cost Business Everybody loves a bargain, but the Chinese seem to be reaping most of the rewards.
BusinessWeek December 6, 2004	How America Can Meet "The China Price" Managing a new Sino-American economy will require compromise, finesse, and tough policy choices. Start by cutting the budget deficit. And boost funds for education.
Knowledge@Wharton	Does China Pose an Economic Threat to the United States? It would appear so, given the rhetoric in recent months by American politicians and some businesspeople, who have complained about the loss of U.S. jobs to China and unfair Chinese trade practices. But faculty members at business schools say the complaints are misplaced and driven by politics.
CIO September 1, 2003 Christopher Koch	Backlash As a growing number of IT jobs move overseas, some CIOs and economists prophesy a political storm against offshore outsourcing.
BusinessWeek February 16, 2004 Gary S. Becker	What India Can Do To Catch Up With China India began to turn around its economy a little more than a decade ago -- and with further free-market reforms, it can give China a run for being the most dynamic big developing country.
The Motley Fool January 9, 2006 Rich Smith	Outsourcing's Endgame Outsourcing will end as soon as it becomes economically illogical to continue it, and not a moment sooner. Already, wages for Indian workers ranging from call center operators to programmers to engineers are increasing at rates of 15% to 30% per annum.
CIO February 1, 2007 Margaret Locher	Eastern Europe New Outsourcing Hot Spot A new study says Eastern Europe has the potential to be the next outsourcing hotspot.
HBS Working Knowledge April 3, 2006 Jim Heskett	Has Globalization Reached Its Peak? The book End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation argues that globalization has led corporations to outsource too much of their work and, more important, their intellectual capital. So, has globalization reached its peak?
Global Services July 29, 2007 Imrana Khan	China to Lead in Financial Services Outsourcing In the race between China and India for global economic superiority, who will win? A recent report by Deloitte Consulting, cheers for China, argues that China is better poised to be the victor, especially in the area of financial services outsourcing.
CFO February 1, 2003 Alix Nyberg	Hardware Down, Humans Up Some key drivers of IT outsourcing costs are becoming less expensive, but that's not true of the people behind them.
BusinessWeek January 23, 2006 James Mehring	Wages: A Misleading Predictor Of Inflation Numbers show that wage growth is slowing, an indication of no wage-driven inflationary pressures. However, those data may be giving the markets and the Federal Reserve a false sense of security.
The Motley Fool September 7, 2004 Richard Gibbons	Weighing Outsourcing's Impact Key factors help determine if outsourcing benefits or hurts Americans.
CIO February 1, 2004 Stephanie Overby	India Sees IT Wages Rise Good news for India's programmers: more rupees all around. Workers in the Indian IT industry won the highest average salary increases in the Asia-Pacific region for 2003, according to an annual Asia-Pacific salary survey.
CFO June 1, 2004 Durfee & O'Sullivan	Offshoring by the Numbers Results of our survey of 275 finance executives at a broad range of companies.
Managed Care February 2008	Choosing a City for Mail Order Pharmacy The highs and lows of operating a mail order pharmacy.
CIO July 15, 2006 Stephanie Overby	2006 Global Outsourcing Guide Risks, rewards, challenges and opportunities, country by country. Asia: India... Philippines... Malaysia... China... Europe: Ireland... Romania... Hungary... Bulgaria... Africa: Ghana... The Americas: Mexico... Canada... Costa Rica... etc.
Wall Street & Technology June 18, 2008 Penny Crosman	Wall Street Outsourcing to New, Exotic Corners of the Globe While India still rules the world of IT offshoring, China, the Philippines, Romania, Poland, Hungary, South Africa, Vietnam, Cambodia and even Iceland are starting to attract bigger pieces of Wall Street's IT action.
Global Services November 29, 2007	The Future of Offshore Wages Globally, offshore wages are changing dramatically as supply and demand reconcile differences. By 2010, the most noticeable change will be the redistribution of arbitrage from a few global hotspots to a broader base of tier-2 cities and newly emerged countries around the world.
IndustryWeek April 1, 2008 David Blanchard	Just In Time -- The China Misconnection For some manufacturers, it's getting too expensive to offshore their production to China.
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Global Services October 29, 2007 Rinku Tyagi	Outsourcing Will Be a Major Issue Outsourcing will be a major issue in the coming Presidential elections in the U.S.A. says Arvind Panagariya, Professor of Economics, Columbia University. Here, he discusses issues that are impacting globalization.
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Wall Street & Technology November 29, 2004 Jim Middlemiss	Riga to Manila to Mumbai More Wall Street firms are considering offshore outsourcing than ever before - and their choices are growing by the minute.
BusinessWeek August 8, 2005 Manjeet Kripalani	How A Factory Became A Flash Point Violence at a Honda plant highlights India's outdated labor laws and rattles foreign investors.
CIO May 12, 2009 Stephanie Overby	The Truth About Obama's "Tax on Outsourcing" Misconceptions about President Barack Obama's plan to close overseas business tax loopholes abound. CIO.com sets the record straight about the five most common misperceptions.
IndustryWeek March 1, 2007 David Blanchard	Manufacturing's Biggest Challenges -- IndustryWeek's 2007 Salary Survey Responses If you come to work everyday worrying about global competition, finding and keeping skilled labor, raw material shortages, and the quality of your product, you're not alone.