Global Business Today 8th Edition by Charles Hill

Exercise 22

Reread the Country Focus on moving white-collar jobs offshore.
a. Who benefits from the outsourcing of skilled white-collar jobs to developing nations? Who are the losers?
b. Will developing nations like the United States suffer from the loss of high-skilled and high-paying jobs?
c. Is there a difference between the transference of high-paying white-collar jobs, such as computer programming and accounting, to developing nations, and low-paying blue-collar jobs? If so, what is the difference, and should government do anything to stop the flow of white-collar jobs out of the country to countries such as India?