Their rough estimate of nearly 45,000 software jobs relocated annually to India is consistent with an estimate by Charles L. Shultze that “the number of workers employed in producing computer and related services relocated from the United States to India could have increased by roughly 185,000 over the past four years” (Charles L. Schultze, “Offshoring, Import Competition, and the Jobless Recovery,” Policy Brief 136, Washington: The Brookings Institution, August).
BIS Review 57/2004  5  lasting gains for the economy as a whole, economists generally view the latter as outweighing the former, but it is admittedly difficult for many individuals in American society to share this assessment. Rather than arguing the merits of international trade in the abstract, advocates of free trade might gain more traction by arguing against concrete examples of protectionism.