1、OUTSOURCING,Are we exporting our pollution along with our jobs?,What is outsourcing and why do it?,Transferring an organizational function/business function to another country Reduce costs Contracts Risk management Time Staff/workers,History- Outsourcing in the US,1980s- US in a recession Saw outsou
2、rcing as a return to profitability 1990s- potential worker shortage NAFTA signed- American firms began looking at Mexico as both a market for export and a potential center of production.,Pollution,EPA estimates that 40% of the mercury that sinks out of the air and lands in the USA comes from oversea
3、s. Mercury emitted by power plants and factories Asia waft over to the USA and settles into the nations lakes and streams Dust from Africas Sahara Desert blows west across the Atlantic Ocean and helps raise particle levels above federal health standards in Miami and other Southern cities. Haze and o
4、zone from factories, power plants and fires in Asia and Mexico infiltrate wilderness spots,http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16712,Are we exporting our pollution?,Have pollution levels really decreased as a result of outsourcing? Are our pollution levels lower tha
5、n the countries we are supposedly outsourcing to?,http:/ of jobs in the US require geographical proximity TPI Inc., an outsourcing advisory firm, even reports that the total value of business process outsourcing deals in the United States fell by 32 percent in 2003. Unemployment is decreasing,http:/
6、 jobs isnt something new,Citing the work of Forrester Research Inc., a technology research firm, Bradley says, “Of the 2.7 million jobs lost over the past three years, only 300,000 have resulted from outsourcing.“ Job losses and job gains have always been a part of our history.,http:/ we really losi
7、ng jobs?,Forrester Research estimates that 3.3 million white-collar jobs will move overseas by 2015- sounds like a lot right? About 220,000 jobs a year Total employment will be about 152 million Outsourcing would affect less than 0.2% of the American population Boston University Professor Nitin Jogl
8、ekar has examined the effect of outsourcing on large financial firms and found that less than 20 percent of workers affected by outsourcing lose their jobs; the rest are repositioned within the firm,New job economy,Federal Reserve Bank of New York suggests that the economy is undergoing a structural
9、 transformation: jobs are disappearing from old sectors (such as manufacturing) and being created in new ones (such as mortgage brokering). In all such transformations, the creation of new jobs lags behind the destruction of old ones,http:/ 1990-2004,http:/ pollution really being outsourced? Comes back to us Are we really exporting our jobs? New jobs created Insourcing jobs,Sources,http:/ http:/www.foreignaffairs.org/20040501faessay83301-p10/daniel-w-drezner/the-outsourcing-bogeyman.html http:/ http:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsourcing http:/ http:/www.mises.org/story/1248 http:/
