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April 2002

Employment in business services: a year of unprecedented decline

Rachel M. Krantz-Kent

Falling employment in personnel services contributed to the greatest decline in employment in business services in the last 43 years; slowing of growth in computer services and job losses in miscellaneous business services played a smaller role.

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