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This is doubly false. First, offshore jobs has not led to high unemployment in the US; 2 million jobs were offshored between 1994 and 2007 even as the unemploym
by joshuahedlund 14y ago
This is doubly false. First, offshore jobs has not led to high unemployment in the US; 2 million jobs were offshored between 1994 and 2007 even as the unemployment rate dropped from 6.6% to 4.4%[1][2] - apparently most of those people found other work. Secondly, the reduced emissions is not caused by offshored jobs, either; US manufacturing output is up this year[3] even as emissions have dropped 8%. Not that a cleaner China wouldn't be even better.
[1]http://www.trivisonno.com/offshoring http://www.trivisonno.com/offshoring
[2]http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000 http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000
[3]http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g17/current/ http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g17/current/
- eel 14y agoI don't think the first statement is a valid argument. One could instead note the number of jobs offshored between 1994 and 2012, and see that the unemployment rate has increased from 6.6% to 8.3%. That's not to say the original comment is correct either. It's just that there seems to be many more variables that just one in what determines the unemployment rate.
- joshuahedlund 14y agoYes, I guess that's the better point - I don't think there's strong evidence to tie offshoring to unemployment either way. But regarding the 1994-2012 claim, I feel like that's the claim a lot of people are implictly making, since unemployment is high now and they are blaming offshored jobs for it, which is why I respond that it didn't seem to increase unemployment from 1994-2007, so why should even less offshoring be responsible for the 2007-2012 increase? (I suppose you could say there were other factors offsetting the offshoring earlier that weren't later, but I don't feel like people are making that nuanced of a claim)