Global Production Systems2024-02-14Workforce Planning Methodology2024-02-14 Report a question What's wrong with this question? You cannot submit an empty report. Please add some details. 12345678910 Global Production and the Labour Market Advanced Business English practice 10 multiple-choice questions If you log in, you will get the results via email. Category: business-advanced 1. The share of trade in world GDP has been increasing with a shift from .......... to manufactured goods and a growing importance of intermediary goods as a result of outsourcing. commonalities communications accommodations commodities Category: business-advanced 2. This increase in outsourcing has been accompanied by rising income inequality (25% of which is .......... to outsourcing) and historic high rates of profits and profit share. attributable attritional a tribute an attribute Category: business-advanced 3. To .......... greater gains from trade, countries are seeking to increase their value-added position as they expand their industrialization, but have often found difficulty in upgrading. control capture contract corral Category: business-advanced 4. The newly industrializing Asian countries have had success in upgrading, whereas Latin America and ..........- Saharan Africa have had difficulty (e.g., Mexico has been able to expand exports but only with a small amount of value-added). Sub Mid Trans South Category: business-advanced 5. China's rapid rise .......... an additional threat for most developing countries outside of Asia that have had trouble upgrading. posts portends poses posits Category: business-advanced 6. The 1990s saw only a .......... growth in per capita income outside of Asia and a rise in income inequality within countries as a result of the Washington Consensus of export-led manufacturing growth, deregulation, and liberalization. maugre menial measly meager Category: business-advanced 7. And as China participates even more fully in the global economy, developing countries will not be able to compete with China's abundant supply of cheap labor and developed infrastructure and will therefore be .......... affected. conversely adversely obversely inversely Category: business-advanced 8. The increased market linkages that now characterize the global economy have caused considerable product and labor market .......... : many industries are now characterized by oligopolies on top and increased supplier competition at the bottom. anomalies antonymies acerbities asymmetries Category: business-advanced 9. It is an endogenous process that is sustainable because of barriers to entry on the top, an abundant supply of labor on the bottom, and the entry of more firms on the .......... level even though many industries already have excess global capacity. field ground base first Category: business-advanced 10. This has led to a value-added .......... for developing countries that face obstacles to industrial upgrading, pressure downstream to keep prices low because of low margins, and pressures on labor markets to keep wages low. squeeze squint squelch squirt Your score is The average score is 0% LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Restart quiz Author: Kovács Áron Share0