With most estimates saying 500,000 or fewer U.S. jobs have moved offshore to countries like India, offshore outsourcing has had little impact on the U.S. unemployment rate, which stood at 5.9 ...

Widget production is not the only sector thast has seen job outsourcing. We are perhaps most familiar with offshore phone centers, but all sorts of uptown jobs have also been shipped out.

These workers face an uncertain future of possibly retaining their jobs with the new supplier, or perhaps being made completely redundant. Unlike outsourcing, offshoring is primarily a geographic ...

As a hot-button political issue, “offshoring” is off the charts. White House economic advisor Gregory Mankiw sparked more than a little controversy when he proclaimed that outsourcing jobs to ...

A new study by UC Berkeley and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers finds that the practices of outsourcing and offshoring jobs appear to have both positive and negative effects ...

This publication is now archived. What’s the debate over outsourcing? Shifting jobs to lower-wage countries--a form of what is known as offshore outsourcing--is an increasingly popular practice ...

So far, opposition to offshore outsourcing has taken place more in cyberspace than on the streets. In dozens of online discussion groups and on Web sites, workers trade stories of jobs lost and ...

Americans should just learn new jobs, but what jobs are available ... business lost customers and needs a governmental stimulus. Offshore outsourcing of manufacturing and information technology ...

There's a distinction between outsourcing (subcontracting work to another company) and offshoring (moving jobs outside the United States). Meanwhile, Romney has countered that Obama's economic ...

reducing the number of paid jobs available to American workers at the rate of pay that it paid prior to offshoring. 4. Calculation of Levy. The Outsourcing Cost Defrayment Levy shall be calculated ...

not one American job got sent overseas?" Fehrnstrom said there is a "very simple difference" between oursourcing and off-shoring: "Outsourcing is what the Obama campaign does when they hire an ...