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April 2011

Professional and business services: employment trends in the 2007-09 recession

Frank Conlon

Employment in professional and business services fell with the recent slump in the broader economy; the temporary help services industry, which regularly leads fluctuations in aggregate employment, accounted for a large portion of the cumulative job losses.

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