pmaitra
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IKEA is very popular in the US. If it nominally Swedish, but in practice 99.99% Chinese. The only thing that is Swedish are the chocolates they sell. Even the Swedish meatballs are made locally.I would say that developed countries like for example Germany and Finland have high skill jobs in the area, that in India or China might be called unskilled labor jobs. For example carpenters and other construction workers are proud professionals with own guilds and good salary in both countries. We try to add value to the process in all levels. That is made possible because everybody nowadays have good education no matter what the job.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journeyman_years
I wonder whether carpentry is at all a major profession in Sweden, IKEA notwithstanding,