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Hi, Arthur and everyone, I would assume off-shoring is occurring in
all industrialized high-income countries. Has anyone seen any numbers for the
European countries, Japan? I know there are some in India who are
already concerned over the number of Indian jobs that have gone to China. Cheers, Lawry From:
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On Behalf Of Cordell, Arthur: ECOM "Offshoring costing jobs in Canada" An
estimated 395,000 Canadian jobs, including 91,000 in Quebec - double the
population of Drummondville - could be lost to developing countries during the
next four years, a pair of Université de Montreal researchers predict.
Political science professor Pierre Martin says the process known as offshoring,
where companies transfer some of their operations overseas to reduce production
costs, would be responsible for that number of job losses by the end of the
decade. He cautioned offshoring isn't to be confused with outsourcing or
contracting out. Offshoring is substituting foreign for domestic labour, and
outsourcing is delegating non-core operations or jobs from internal production
to an external subcontractor. "This new phase of globalization is threatening
workers who used to be protected," noted
Martin, who is also director of the university's Chair in American Political
and Economic Studies. (M. King MtlGaz B4) |
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