Offshoring: The Next Industrial Revolution?

By Alan S. Blinder. 2006

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Subfields: Management Information Systems

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Why are different services outsourced to different countries? (2011, methodology): “Services require interaction between the supplier and the buyer (Blinder, 2006; Doh et al., 2009; Hill, 1999).”
Can Service Be a Growth Escalator in Low-Income Countries? (2014, background): “Indeed, the globalization of services is a tip of the iceberg (Blinder 2006).”
Offshoring and Labor Markets (2018, background): “The Wall Street Journal article attributes the 40-million estimate and the list of highly offshorable occupations to Blinder (2006, 2007).48 However, Blinder’s (2006, 2007) estimates are based on subjective perceptions of what is offshorable, and something grounded in measurable labor market…”
Supply-Chain Trade: A Portrait of Global Patterns and Several Testable Hypotheses (2013, neutral): “This casts doubts on the idea, popularised by Alan Blinder (2006), that offshoring of services is about to transform the employment landscape in high-wage nations.”
Population Aging and Economic Growth (2008, background): “Economic incentives to promote greater immigration are also likely to strengthen as populations age; outsourcing work is also likely to become an increasingly attractive option (Blinder 2006).”
Trading Tasks: A Simple Theory of Offshoring (2008, neutral): “Finally, Blinder (2006) develops an alternative dichotomy between activities that require physical contact and geographic proximity and those that generate outputs that can be delivered impersonally and from a distance.”
Corporations and economic inequality around the world: The paradox of hierarchy☆ (2010, background): “Blinder (2006) estimated that perhaps 40 million service jobs in the US faced competition from overseas, from tutoring schoolkids via Skype to processing mortgage applications to decoding the human genome.”
Offshoring, Tasks, and the Skill-Wage Pattern (2013, positive): “that was first used by Spitz-Oener (2006) in her work on tasks, computerization, and technical change and subsequently employed by, for example, Borghans et al. (2008) and Gathmann and Schönberg (2010). Whereas Spitz-Oener (2006) follows Autor et al. (2003) and creates five task categories, we focus”