The continued weakness of US jobs growth can partly be explained by offshoring. Tempted by lower labour costs and lower corporate taxes overseas, multinational firms are expanding employment abroad rather than in America. Employment by US multinational firms in low cost developing countries, particularly China and India, has been growing very rapidly in recent years.
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