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[matt at noway2.thruhere.net]

Late last week, I heard on a local talk radio station during their morning
program discuss this very subject.  They were discussing a recent report
(http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2011/01/offshoring.html) from Duke Univ.

One of the points that they were discussing was that the cost savings
associated with off-shoring are in reality vaporware once everything is
taken into account.

On the flip side, I know one person whose spouse is a lawyer that works on
labor contracts.  They have been having a difficult time finding work at a
wage they can afford to accept because many firms are now using off shore
labor to do much of the research and then having a state side lawyer
"review and approve" the findings.

> On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, Neil L. Little wrote:
>
>> I just saw article in the N&O that says that companies
>> were going over seas because the workers lacked skills.
>
> Not quite: At the low rate the employers want to pay there
> are no workers available.
>
> Adam Smith says that if you increase the pay, there will be
> lots of people to hire.
>
> see Norm Matloff's paper
>
> http://www.mnforsustain.org/matloff_testimony_myth_of_labor_software_shortage.htm
>
> The same is true for fruit pickers, meat packing plant
> workers and nurses. Bringing people from outside the
> country, to live in USA at a pay that americans can't live
> on, only brings people living in poverty (and its associated
> problems) to the towns with these jobs.
>