What happened to the great U.S. job machine? The role of trade and electronic offshoring

Brookings Papers on Economic Activity

Volumn , Issue 2, 2004, Pages 211-284

  Baily, Martin Neil ^a   Lawrence, Robert Z ^b   Levy, Frank ^c  

^a MCKINSEY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

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