Economic Development Futures Journal

Sunday, February 16, 2003

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More on Job Exporting

Globalization. Free trade. Fair trade. International division of labor. Rising unemployment rate in the U.S. Connect the dots. Ok, so it is not that easy, especially in a complex world environment like we have today.

According to a recent report by Monster.com, U.S. businesses are doing a very effective job of "exporting jobs" to other countries, and they are not all low-skilled routine jobs. Many are knowledge jobs.

While both sides of the argument are represented in the Monster.com article, I would say that the protectionists were given the upper hand in this debate. Read it for yourself and tell me what you think. Go here.

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