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

trends in domestic outsourcing, the occupations in which it has grown, and the industries engaging in outsourcing for the … employment services sector, which has been a particularly important area of domestic outsourcing. In addition, we examine … domestic outsourcing and its implications for employment patterns and to inconsistencies across data sets in the information …

manufacturers' outsourcing to employment services significantly inflated manufacturing labor productivity measures, accounting for 0 … should adjust for such outsourcing, available evidence suggests that KLEMS, the multifactor productivity measure for … manufacturing, does not fully capture the relatively large effects that outsourcing to staffing services has on manufacturing …