The thing is Samuel, the impact that outsourcing jobs will have on a country isn't determined by track record, and you can't solidly say that because employment is now rising, and has been for some time in the UK, the same phenomena will occur in other developed countries. Look at it this way and make the comparrisson: Britain bewteen 1970- 2000 - supplemented workforce by HUGE increase in migration ; Joining of the EU = abundance of lucrative foreign investments in UK banks/buisnesses; radical overhaul of Welfare system ; augementing free market economy during the Thatcher years; relatively small population. : Therefore we've found that in this country employment is something that is more stable than say, the US, where tertiary and manufacturing co-exist in a free market economy, and jobs are scarce because of internal protectionism, and fierce competition to keep labor costs down. To curb long run unemployment is something that can't as easily be solved circumstancially, like the UK's.