1.) The ones who benefit from the outsourcing of skilled white-collar jobs to developing nations are
the developing nations themselves that are getting these white-collar jobs. It will create more
and better jobs in that country. The company will also benefit from this as well. They will
increase their profits because of the lower cost of producing their products through less labor
costs. By doing this it will give the company a much more competitive advantage in the global
market.
The losers in the outsourcing of skilled white-collar jobs to developing nations will be the
country where to company is from. The people who held those white-collar jobs prior to
them moving to a developing country will lose their jobs. This will hurt not only the people
themselves but the country as a whole. Unfortunately, with fewer jobs available for unskilled
workers, people may find themselves in exceptional poverty. Poverty does not benefit the US
economy since it reduces consumer spending and tax revenues.
2.) I think that the U.S. will most definitely suffer from the loss of highly skilled jobs. Just look at
how it suffered from the loss of “blue collar jobs”. When I was growing up, this nation stressed
to youth that the only hope of acquiring a good career was higher education. They stressed that
college was a good move out of high school. We already saw the loss of many blue collar jobs
and a lack of people willing to go into a trade. Now with these students are going to be
graduating college with significant loans and only to find that the highly skilled jobs are being
lost to other countries.
3.) The difference between the transference of high-paying white-collar jobs to developing nations
and low-paying blue-collar jobs is that the low-paying jobs are outsourced because they have a
large workforce and require lots of money to pay these employees. Whereas the high-paying
white-collar jobs require more money to pay each individual employee, but does not come close
to the low-paying employees total. Companies outsource for the good of the company.