Comes Around, Comes Around: Effects Of Offshore Outsourcing, By Oliver Bertrand

In Oliver Bertrand's article,''What goes around, comes around: Effects of Offshore Outsourcing on the Export Performance of Firms'' he attempts to find out whether or not offshore outsourcing is beneficial to a company in the long run. Like the 2006 indie movie Outsourced, many European and American companies are looking for ways to reduce their production cost while simultaneously doubling their economic output. Companies are looking for talent in developing countries whom are willing to take on tedious jobs for a fraction of the pay. Because companies seek out foreign employees that they have gained a negative reputation of encouraging western exploitation, and are accused of ruining the job market. To combat this assumption Bertrand tries