Study: Offshore outsourcing boosts domestic employment, wages

According to ITAA, 10 percent of U.S. IT software and services jobs have been lost since 2000, but only 2.8 percent of those jobs have been lost because of offshore outsourcing. Most jobs were lost because of the dot-com and telecom busts, the economic recession and productivity gains, the study said. Nevertheless, ITAA President Harris Miller said, "We cannot ignore displaced U.S. workers. Their pain is real." Miller said workers laid off because of offshore outsourcing should get government help, such as relocation assistance and job training, along with compensation during the training period.He also said the federal government should continue to urge other nations to remove barriers to U.S. exports and open their services markets to foreign competition. The government should not enact barriers to offshore outsourcing, because doing so would slow the U.S. economy and cut the number of new domestic jobs, Miller said. "We have long held the position that global sourcing creates more jobs and higher real wages for American workers," Miller said. "Now we have the data that prove it."The (10 page PDF) of the study is available at .