<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0562ed18-9d05-4406-9ccb-8bcc0ef64eeb/3253059B-E452-44FF-8AEA-C5D96A3E391F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/1622" href="http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/1622" style="font-size: 11px;">www.voxeu.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/1622"><P>Today’s globalisation is operating with higher resolution. It is not enough to think of skill groups and sectors; the impact is more unpredictable, sudden and individual than in the past. This column assesses how high-resolution globalisation differs and how governments need to respond to make it work.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/1622"><P>The Kiel Institute’s Global Economic Symposium – something like a New Century Davos – is being held in a Northern German castle and it is <A href="http://www.global-economic-symposium.org/virtual-ges/strategyperspectives_global_view" target="_blank" linkindex="53">open to the web community</A>. Globalisation is on the agenda. Alan Blinder has contributed his thoughts on “<A href="http://www.global-economic-symposium.org/acl_users/credentials_cookie_auth/login_form?came_from=http://www.global-economic-symposium.org/virtual-ges/spreading-the-benefits-of-globalization/skills-for-the-new-wave-of-globalization/strategyperspectivefolder/offshoring-workforce-skills-and-the-educational-system" target="_blank">Offshoring, Workforce Skills, and the Educational System</A>.” Here are my comments on the subject.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/1622"><H1>The new ‘new wave of globalisation’ in perspective</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/1622"><P>Globalisation is the great unbundling, or rather many.<A href="#f1" linkindex="54"><SUP>1</SUP></A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/1622">In the late 19th Century and first three-quarters of the 20th, globalisation meant the spatial unbundling of factories and consumers. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/1622">These revolutions also transformed the skill mix a nation needed for success;</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/1622">Social consequences</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3253059B-E452-44FF-8AEA-C5D96A3E391F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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