Brookings Trade Forum 2005: Offshoring White-Collar Work

Tentative contents include: ‧Offshoring: Threats and Opportunities Daniel Trefler (University of Toronto)‧Modeling the Offshoring of White-Collar Services: From Comparative Advantage to the New Theories of Trade and FDI James Markusen (University of Colorado)‧Globalization and the Outsourcing of Services: The Impact of Indian Offshoring Rafiq Dossani (Stanford University)‧Offshoring in the Semiconductor Industry: A Historical Perspective Clair Brown and Greg Linden (University of California, Berkeley)‧A Fairer Deal For America's Workers in a New Era of Offshoring Lael Brainard and Robert Litan (Brookings Institution and the Kauffman Foundation)

Susan M. Collins is a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution and a professor of economics at Georgetown University. Her publications focus on various dimensions of economic policy and performance for developing countries. Lael Brainard was vice president and director of the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution, where she held the Bernard E. Schwartz Chair in International Economics. Brainard served as deputy national economic adviser in the Clinton administration.