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17 February 2006

Outsourcing Is Climbing Skills Ladder - New York Times

The globalization of work tends to start from the bottom up. The first jobs to be moved abroad are typically simple assembly tasks, followed by manufacturing, and later, skilled work like computer programming. At the end of this progression is the work done by scientists and engineers in research and development laboratories.

A new study that will be presented today to the National Academies, the nation’s leading advisory groups on science and technology, suggests that more and more research work at corporations will be sent to fast-growing economies with strong education systems, like China and India.

Outsourcing Is Climbing Skills Ladder - New York Times (February 17. 2006)

(Also posted at Knowledge Work)

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