IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/oec/edukaa/5km39qs88zjb.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Higher skills and the knowledge economy: the challenge of offshoring

Author

Listed:
  • John Craig
  • Andrew Gunn

Abstract

Recent economics literature on offshoring highlights the trend towards the relocation of high-skill jobs to emerging economies. This evolution presents a challenge to the established knowledge economy discourse on which the relationship between higher education, higher skills, higher productivity and higher incomes has been based. This paper identifies some tentative impacts of offshoring for employment and education patterns in OECD countries and argues that the assumptions of the knowledge economy discourse need to be revised. The implications for higher education institutions are considered and three potential strategic responses are presented.

Suggested Citation

  • John Craig & Andrew Gunn, 2010. "Higher skills and the knowledge economy: the challenge of offshoring," Higher Education Management and Policy, OECD Publishing, vol. 22(3), pages 1-17.
    • Handle: RePEc:oec:edukaa:5km39qs88zjb
    DOI: 10.1787/hemp-22-5km39qs88zjb
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1787/hemp-22-5km39qs88zjb
    Download Restriction: Full text available to READ online. PDF download available to OECD iLibrary subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1787/hemp-22-5km39qs88zjb?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Mohammad Jaber Thalgi, 2020. "The University’s Role in Developing the Skills of the Knowledge Economy from The Perspective of Students of Yarmouk University’s Faculty of Shari’a and Islamic Studies," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 11(4), pages 1529-1537, December.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:oec:edukaa:5km39qs88zjb. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: the person in charge (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/oecddfr.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.