An analysis of empirical data on the role of outsourcing as a way to increase the profitability of an enterprise allows us to conclude that the influence of outsourcing on the American labor market is exaggerated, including in the scientific literature - such are the results of studies conducted by M. Rishi and S. Saxena. A similar opinion is also shared by D. Dresner, G. Mankyu and F. Svogel.
For example, the cited figure of 250 thousand jobs annually, which can be considered, using the terminology of Dasha, “lost” for the national economy of the importing country, is quite comparable with the volume of weekly cuts of 500 thousand jobs, and therefore no way can not affect measures to increase the profitability of the enterprise.
The predicted indicator of 3.3 million jobs expected to be reduced in the period 2004-2015. as a result of international outsourcing, it can also be considered a sufficient basis for confirming the need for protectionist measures that make up the essence of the company's profitability, only being considered without regard to the actual amount of annually reduced jobs, which is 15 million, and to another forecast indicator - the number of newly created in period 2004-2010 approximately 22 million jobs.
According to the results of studies conducted by M. Emity and UNCTAD experts, the conclusion about the insignificant effect of outsourcing, as a way to increase the profitability of the enterprise, on the dynamics of the labor market is also correct for the UK and other importers of outsourcing services from developed countries, respectively. The statement about the relationship between outsourcing and a significant level of unemployment, as well as the possible slowdown in economic growth resulting from this, is intuitively true, but obviously wrong from a scientific point of view. In fact, the Economist experts explain, it is necessary to talk about such a way of increasing the profitability of an enterprise as the process of redistributing resources, financial and labor, in those sectors where their use is more productive, which in the long run leads to increased prosperity in the economy .
Confirmed by the results of empirical analysis, the structural nature of unemployment caused by outsourcing, in turn, means its natural character due to continuously occurring changes in the structure of the national economy. This difference allows us to understand the incorrectness of claims to the Ricardo model in terms of ignoring the unemployment generated by outsourcing: it is a model of long-term equilibrium. It, with the assumption of the natural nature of unemployment, may well be considered applicable to improving the profitability of the enterprise and to justify the mutually beneficial nature of outsourcing.
Borrowing the terminology of game theory widely used in economic analysis, a number of researchers: D. Farrell, G. Mankyu and F. Svogel, V. Esprey, formulate this conclusion as follows: international outsourcing is not a “zero-sum game”, where one-way wins (in our case, the exporting country of outsourcing services) is determined by the loss of the other - the importing country. On the contrary, participation in international outsourcing at least does not worsen the situation of the parties compared to what it was before the establishment of trade relations, and is a situation defined as “win-win”, or “a game with a positive amount.
Thus, the Ricardian idea of the mutually beneficial trade for the economies of the countries involved in it retains its fairness regarding outsourcing as one of the modern forms of international trade. This, in turn, confirms that the long-term benefits of international outsourcing in the long term are received by the subjects of both countries involved in it.