The New Global Division of Labor: Winners and Losers from Offshore Outsourcing Schedule

Friday March 3rd , 2006
8:00 pm: The Great Doubling: Labor in the New Global Economy, Keynote by Richard Freeman, Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics, Harvard University

Saturday March 4th, 2006
8:30 am – 10:15 am: The Impact of Globalized Production on Developed Countries

      Moderator: Kavita Khory, Associate Professor of Politics, Mount Holyoke College

      Panelists:

• Globalization of Services: Friend or Foe? Catherine Mann, Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics
• Spurring Growth Dynamics from Services Offshoring. Will Milberg, Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, New School University (PDF)
• Social Contracts under Siege: National Responses to Globalized and Europeanized Production in Europe. Vivien Ann Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, Department of International Relations, Boston University (PDF)

      Discussant: Hans-Peter Martin, member of the European Parliament, Brussels

10:30 am-12:15 pm: The Impact of Globalized Production on Developing Countries

      Moderator: Shahrukh Khan, Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Mount Holyoke College

      Panelists:

• The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Central Europe's Reintegration into the Global Economy, Bart Kaminski, University of Maryland, College Park, and World Bank. (PDF)
• The Impact of the Foreign Sector on Innovation in China’s Domestic Firms. Gary Jefferson, Carl Marks Professor of International Trade and Finance, Brandeis University. (PDF)
• Offshore Outsourcing of Services: Trends and Challenges for Developing Countries. Luis Abugattas, Senior Trade Expert, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. (PDF)

      Discussant: Alice Amsden, Barton L Weller Professor of Political Economy, MIT

2:00 pm-3:00 pm: The Disposable American, Keynote by Louis Uchitelle, Senior Economics Journalist, New York Times

3:15pm-5:00 pm: Responses to the Challenges of Globalized Production

      Moderator: Eva Paus, Professor of Economics, Director of the Center for Global Initiatives, Mount Holyoke College

      Panelists:

• Labor Recommodification in the Second Transformation. How to Achieve Economic Security. Guy Standing, Director, Socio-Economic Security Program, International Labor Organization (PDF)
• Employment-oriented Macro Policy and the Challenge of Outsourcing. Jerry Epstein, Professor of Economics, Co-Director, Political Economy Research Center, University of Massachusetts. (PDF)
• Business Process and IT Outsourcing. Big Companies, Big Deals. Hugh Dyar, Senior Executive, Accenture New York office, Communications and High Tech Outsourcing (PDF)

      Discussant: Richard Freeman, Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics, Harvard University

Co-sponsored by the New York Times Knowledge Network and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.