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Overview:
Understanding Outsourcing
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Roundtable
The Wall Street Journal Online presents differing
views on outsourcing
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Behind
Outsourcing Debate: Few Hard Numbers
The actual impact of outsourcing on the U.S.
is much harder to gauge than politicians and the media make
it seem because the government doesn't keep count of jobs
leaving the country, and the statistics available aren't reliable.
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The
Future of Jobs: New Ones Arise, Wage Gap Widens
Much of the American anxiety about outsourcing
to India and China can be boiled down to this simple question:
Will there be good jobs left for today's kids?
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Lessons
Of Outsourcing In Four Historical Tales
Losing
skilled jobs to low-wage foreign competition is as old as
the Industrial Revolution.
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Globalization
Is Creating U.S. Logistics Jobs
Most economists maintain
that globalization benefits the U.S. as old-economy jobs that
move abroad are replaced by better, higher-value jobs. Many
Americans don't buy it. But
contrary to popular belief, the U.S. is creating new high-paying
jobs. Here is one growing field: logistics.
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Lesson
in India: Not Every Job Translates Overseas
Moving
jobs to lower-cost countries may seem like a can't-miss proposition
for some companies, but one software maker's experience provides
important insights into how difficult the process is and why
the savings aren't always easy to gauge.
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Outsourcing
Fears Land in Congress's Lap
With voters
worried about losing their jobs to workers in other countries
and politicians worried about losing theirs to other politicians,
Congress is charging headlong into the debate over the outsourcing
of white-collar jobs to Bangalore, India; Accra, Ghana; and
other exotic locales.
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Powell
Presses India on U.S. Exports
Secretary
of State Colin Powell lobbied India to open its market to more
U.S. exports in an attempt to ease the political pressure that
the Bush administration faces from the loss of U.S. jobs to
India.
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'Offshoring'
Can Create Jobs in U.S.
Small
businesses are finding that "offshoring" jobs is a
boon to their bottom line -- and sometimes gives them room to
create new jobs at home.
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More
Work Is Outsourced to U.S.
More
work is outsourced to the U.S. by non-American companies than
U.S. firms send abroad.
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Press
1 for Delhi, 2 for Dallas
To ease concerns over outsourcing, some businesses
are letting customers choose where their work is done.
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CEOs
Plan to Send Work Overseas
About
27% of the chief executive officers of small and midsize businesses
will be outsourcing part of their companies' operations overseas
this year, or within the next three years, says a new survey.
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Outsourcing
Splits Manufacturers
Tension is mounting within the National Association of Manufacturers,
with many smaller members urging the big lobbying group to do
more to fight the migration of jobs overseas even as many of
its larger members embrace the trend.
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Call
Centers Flee Eastern Kentucky
The same technology that brought jobs to towns such as
Hazard, Ky., can, in a flash, whisk them away to India. The
towns' travails show the perils of economic development in
days of dizzying global change.
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