Title: Transnational investment and job loss
Description: Detailed accounting of 67,088 jobs lost in Illinois to firms with operations in Mexico's "macquiladoras." The macquiladora program enables U.S. based firms to export intermediate products to Mexico, assemble final products there and import them back to the U.S. paying duties only on the value added by the Mexican assembly operation..
Subjects: Investments, Foreign, and employment, Structural unemployment, Plant shutdowns, International business enterprises, Employees
Places: Illinois