Outsourcing: Job Killer or Innovation Boost?
What's one to make of two recent, and diverging, Duke University studies of outsourcing's impact on the U.S. engineering workforce?
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By Pete Engardio
Ever since the offshore shift of engineering work blew up into a national issue four years ago, a question has nagged at economists and policy makers: Is outsourcing hurting America's engineering workforce? Or is it actually boosting engineering careers by making U.S. tech companies more competitive and allowing them to deploy engineers more effectively?