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Rising Foreign Outsourcing and Employment Losses in U.S. Manufacturing, 1987-2002

Thursday, January 1, 2004

This paper presents updated measures of foreign outsourcing for the recent period. Its main findings are that the share of foreign-sourced goods in total manufactured inputs almost doubled – from 12.4% to 22.1%– in U.S. manufacturing between 1987 and 2002.

Link
http://www.umass.edu/peri/pdfs/WP89.pdf