The Displaced Worker Survey I mentioned above appears to be for just three years only (1998 - 2000).
The Trade Adjustment Assistance program for displaced manufacturing workers looks like it may be expanded to cover lost service sector jobs and will require the Department of Labor to start keeping accurate data on offshoring. I do not know the current status of the bill.
"Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) introduced the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAAIA) Improvement Act Oct. 27, [2005] which if passed would extend benefits to displaced service workers, including software programmers and other high-tech workers."
The original and later amendments to the TAA provides benefits for manufacturing workers whose jobs have been offshored.
"Smith’s bill would simplify the application process for wage insurance, increase the funding cap for job training programs, and enhance health care subsidies for displaced workers of all types.
"And it would strengthen data collection and reporting requirements by making it mandatory for the Department of Labor to track and make public data on both service sector and manufacturing job trends and TAA usage. By requiring data to be tracked, the bill addresses the problem that there is a lack of statistics about employment and offshoring numbers to enable lawmakers to consider policy decisions about limiting offshoring through caps or taxes."
(Above from Internet sources)
Lack of statistics about employment and offshoring numbers? The government not keeping statistics? Strange. Is that like the governmnment not enforcing immigration laws, not knowing just how man ILLEGALs are here? Accurate numbers would upset the public maybe?
Wage insurance, I like it. Why not? Corporations get cheap risk insurance for their offshore investments -- workers certainly have their own investments in their careers.
Appears to be no numbers available except from guessing and partisan sources; e.g., one IT professional source put the number of their jobs lost at near 700,000.
As for jobs lost to productivity increases I am highly suspect of any numbers because there is "imported productivity." Is it productivity enhancements here or offshoring?
Again, there was a government report released a couple of years ago that pro-offshoring folks jumped on to prove that few jobs were being sent offshore -- but the report counted only mass layoffs of 50 or more employees.
So I cannot answer your questions but the news is awash with story after story of jobs already transferred and plans to send literally hundreds of thousands more offshore.
Well, from my previous posts, manufacturing output up 40% between 1994 and 2000. With slightly lower manufacturing employment.
Again, there was a government report released a couple of years ago that pro-offshoring folks jumped on to prove that few jobs were being sent offshore -- but the report counted only mass layoffs of 50 or more employees.
Well, you could call all 100,000,000 households and ask, but it could take a while.
So I cannot answer your questions but the news is awash with story after story of jobs already transferred and plans to send literally hundreds of thousands more offshore.
Yeah, I see Willie Green's posts too. And we still created 2 million net new jobs in the last 12 months.