Leading experts analyze the impact of the rapid growth of offshore outsourcing in manufacturing and IT. For some it promises more rapid economic growth and for some developing countries it is an opportunity to leapfrog, while others are sidelined but it also means labour and governments may lose...

Winners and losers from offshore outsourcing : what is to be done? / Eva Paus -- The challenge of the growing globalization of labor markets to economic and social policy / Richard Freeman -- Offshoring and labor recommodification in the global transformation / Guy Standing -- Globalization of...

This study was prepared by Nina Czernich while she was working with the Ifo Institute for Economic Research.It was completed in December 2010 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. The study addresses the question whether the emergence of...