The rapid growth of offshoring has sparked a contentious debate over its impact on the U.S. manufacturing sector, which … has recorded steep employment declines yet strong output growth - a fact reconciled by the notable gains in manufacturing … generally are not captured in input cost and import price indexes. To assess the implications of offshoring bias for …

growth of domestic and foreign outsourcing and offshoring. First, outsourcing and offshoring are poorly measured in U ….S. statistics, and poor measurement may impart a significant bias to manufacturing and, where offshoring is involved, aggregate … impossible to fully assess the impact that mismeasurement and cost savings from outsourcing and offshoring have had on measured …