<p>Which industries reduced the most in the USA as a result of outsourcing and imports?
Maybe textiles is one of them. I heard about a rust belt. Which ones are the others?</p>

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2020-08-11T15:43:12.107Z
Reduced in what sense? Loss of employment? Over what time frame? Another issue is that “outsourcing” refers to replacing employees within a firm with workers elsewhere. It is very hard to determine the number of employees involved in a comprehensive fashion.
Brian Romanchuk
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2020-08-11T19:40:31.287Z
Yes by loss of employment. From outsourcing and trade deficit
Joe Jobs
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2020-08-12T00:37:47.660Z
You would need to have data from other countries on those jobs being replaced. I'm not sure you can easily get at that. The closest I can think of is work by Autor *et al* on cognitive vs manual and routine vs non-routine jobs... if you applied that to international data. Even then, concluding outsourcing had happened would be mere speculation.
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Most outsourced industries of USA?
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# Most outsourced industries of USA?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-08-11)

Which industries reduced the most in the USA as a result of outsourcing and imports?
Maybe textiles is one of them. I heard about a rust belt. Which ones are the others?

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Reduced in what sense? Loss of employment? Over what time frame? Another issue is that “outsourcing” refers to replacing employees within a firm with workers elsewhere. It is very hard to determine the number of employees involved in a comprehensive fashion.  
> **username_0**: Yes by loss of employment. From outsourcing and trade deficit  
> **username_2**: You would need to have data from other countries on those jobs being replaced. I'm not sure you can easily get at that. The closest I can think of is work by Autor *et al* on cognitive vs manual and routine vs non-routine jobs... if you applied that to international data. Even then, concluding outsourcing had happened would be mere speculation.  

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