Introduction
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Session 3 Assignment -- view & read
Session 4 -- Prestowitz video
Session 7 Readings
Practice Exam Review Materials
Additional Readings (thanks to Amy Miller)
Organization
Special collection: Upward mobility
Many countries try to protect workers through minimum-wage laws, "last-hired-first-fired" laws, laws making it difficult or impossible to fire anyone, and other well-intentioned devices that not only limit the mobility of labor—either directly or because they add to the cost of creating jobs—but also discourage companies from expanding into new businesses. Yet it is essential that developed (and, eventually, developing) economies move up the value chain into advanced services so that people displaced by offshoring can find new work. The articles in this special collection argue that governments should give companies the freedom to determine their own labor requirements while protecting workers from the hardships of economic change instead of trying to prevent it.
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In this collection
Beyond cheap labor: Lessons for developing economies
2005 Number 1
A road map for European economic reform
Web exclusive, September 2005
How Germany can win from offshoring
2004 Number 4
An American lesson for France
2000 Special Edition: Europe in transition
Professional Resources
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