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August 2005

Mass layoff data indicate outsourcing and offshoring work

Sharon P. Brown, Lewis B. Siegel

Employer interviews revealed that most of the relocations were domestic, involving the movement of work within the same company, but work was moved out of the country in more than a quarter of the cases.

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