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Linking jobs in global supply chains to demand
Author(s) -
KIZU Takaaki,
KÜHN Stefan,
VIEGELAHN Christian
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international labour review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.433
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1564-913X
pISSN - 0020-7780
DOI - 10.1111/ilr.12142
Subject(s) - supply chain , china , final demand , supply and demand , business , production (economics) , tertiary sector of the economy , service (business) , job creation , point (geometry) , industrial organization , demand patterns , emerging markets , labour economics , economics , demand management , marketing , microeconomics , macroeconomics , geometry , mathematics , finance , political science , law
The expansion of global supply chains (GSCs) has increasingly disconnected the location of jobs from the demand supporting them, both geographically and in terms of sector. Using data from the World Input–Output Database, the authors examine these linkages across 40 countries over the period 1995–2013, expanding on earlier analysis published by the ILO, and provide evidence of the number of GSC‐related jobs in terms of job location–export destination combinations. Their findings point to changing patterns in demand and supply of GSC‐related jobs, increasing the role of China as a demand generator, reinforcing production linkages between emerging economies and increasing the number of service jobs dependent on manufacturing GSCs.