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Part I: Consensus Report, 1 Introduction
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... Part I Consensus Report
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... Even if wages for the time, employment and wages were recovering slowly from most accessible and skilled of these workers are bid up to a recession precipitated by the "dot-com bust" and the 9/11 levels near those of wages in developed countries, we can attacks. Particularly during 2003–2004, news reports of expect the supply of workers to increase over time as other companies simultaneously cutting staff in the United States individuals, firms, and countries seek out, or begin to proand launching extensive new operations in lower wage vide, the training and connectivity they need to participate economies abroad attracted attention, and criticism, from in a global service economy.
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... engineers are performed in the United States? Can we characterize differ- still employed by U.S.-based companies, and the actions of ences in performance between engineering service-sector U.S.-based companies still have a disproportionate impact on BOX 1-1 Project Statement of Task National Academy of Engineering Committee on the Offshoring of Engineering Statement of Task The National Academy of Engineering will form an ad hoc committee to organize and conduct a public workshop on the issue of offshoring of U.S.-based jobs having significant engineering content.
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... A Wulf appointed an ad hoc steering changing rapidly, the conclusions of scholars and analysts committee composed of eight NAE members representing on all sides of the issues were questioned and their ideas a range of engineering fields and two additional experts to debated.


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