Mass layoff data indicate outsourcing and offshoring work.
The article focuses on the Mass Layoff Statistics (MLS) program of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). It presents a description of the MLS program and cites the kind of information it collects. It presents the definition of outsourcing and offshoring used by the BLS in examining the movement...
| Published in: | Monthly Labor Review Vol. 128; no. 8; pp. 3 - 11 |
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US Department of Labor
Aug2005
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