Unemployment Through Layoffs and Offshore Outsourcing

Levine, Linda

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Labor;    Unemployment;    Layoffs;    Offshore manufacturing;   

RP-ID  :  RL30799
RP-ID  :  RL30799_2010Dec22

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This report focuses on unemployment through layoffs. It sets forth the publicly available sources of information on layoffs and determines whether they provide data on the reasons that underlie those events (e.g., weak product demand, financial difficulty). The report next briefly provides a context for the offshore outsourcing phenomenon and its relationship to gross and net employment change. It then analyzes the trend in, severity of, and explanations of extended mass layoffs before concluding with an examination of those layoff events that involve movement-of work to foreign-based affiliates of the U.S. company that called the layoff or to foreign businesses, for example.