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The Implications of Service Offshoring for Metropolitan Economies

This Brookings Institution report provides an analysis of the areas that are most likely to be impacted by the current trend of companies shipping jobs from the United States to other, usually low-wage, countries. According to the report, the city of Lowell, Massachusetts is expected to be hit especially hard, losing between 3.1 and 4.3 percent of its jobs to service offshoring between 2004 and 2015.

Please click here to review the report and a brief abstract.