It would also be obliged to include mechanisms to assist workers affected by any shift of jobs overseas.
That would further encourage the shift of jobs, investment and profit abroad — exactly the wrong policy direction.
The shift of jobs back to developed countries is an encouraging sign that the flow of jobs need not be one-way.
It is commonly believed that the wages of unskilled workers in rich countries are being depressed by the shift of jobs to low-wage countries.
Moreover, according to a report released Wednesday by the Economic Policy Institute, there has been a nationwide shift of jobs from higher-paying to lower-paying industries.
In White Plains, Morgan Stanley is renovating an office complex for the relocation of 1,400 employees, the largest shift of jobs out of New York City by any financial company since Sept. 11, 2001.
4. Don't assume that movement out of agriculture is all one way: Economic growth has always meant a one-way shift of jobs out of agriculture and into industry or services.
The fourth was succumbing to a flood of cheap money and creating ever-more fanciful financial instruments to mask the steady shift of jobs, opportunity, growth and possibility to places like China, India, Brazil and South Africa.
Mr. Gettelfinger, who led several strikes over the last decade to try to slow the shift of jobs to lower-wage suppliers, considered a strike in 1999 over Ford's plan to spin off Visteon.
Conversely, some of the older suburbs have replicated the inner-city pattern of aging structures, obsolete industrial buildings, and social problems, while the outward shift of jobs has accelerated the dispersal of residential development far beyond the ring of old industrial towns.
