Many textile mills that use cotton have moved from the United States to lower-wage countries.

The losers are likely to be in industries that have been moving assembly operations to lower-wage countries.

As part of a strategy to cut costs, Bata consolidated production in lower-wage countries overseas.

It became easier for companies to move operations to lower-wage countries.

That has forced a mass exodus of light industries, such as shoe manufacturing, to lower-wage countries in Asia.

In many of the lower-wage countries the growth of this type of employment has been the only real employment growth.

As wages rise in Korea, she said, companies there are considering shifting some processing to lower-wage countries, including China.

This is due to a combination of growing competition from lower-wage countries, automation/productivity improvements, off-shoring, etc.

Factory jobs continue to fall victim to new technologies and move to lower-wage countries.

But that degree of change would not prompt toymakers to look seriously at moving production to lower-wage countries like Vietnam or India.