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- From: nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson)
- Subject: Re: "Dumping"
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:25:38 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec15.185329.11685@cs.rochester.edu> fulk@cs.rochester.edu (Mark Fulk) writes:
- >>If the US is losing jobs, I have not seen a cogent explanation showing that
- >>those jobs are ending up in Japan.
- >
- >I don't think the majority of those jobs are ending up in Japan. Most of
- >them are just being obsolesced.
-
- This is essentially correct. See the current issue of _Fortune_,
- cover story, about the US losing jobs to foreign workers. One
- statistic they gave suggested that for every million US jobs a
- US company cuts, maybe 100,000 are shipped overseas; the rest
- just cease to be.
-
- The article is interesting and scary. And the second cover story
- Fortune has done on US job losses in a few months.
-
-
- ---peter
-