Doug Henwood wrote:
> Goldman Sachs writes in its weekly economic commentary:
>
> >* We estimate that relocation of US production to overseas affiliates
> >accounts for 300,000-500,000 job losses over the past three years. This
> >trend historically has been confined to the factory sector, but cheap
> >telecommunications and huge potential savings will encourage offshoring of
> >service functions to grow rapidly.
> >* Even so, international relocation is quite small compared to the
> >size of the US economy-worth about 0.1% of employment per year. It is one
> >factor behind the current "jobless recovery," but hardly the only one.
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