Critics of globalization claim that firms are being driven by the prospects of cheaper labor to shift employment abroad. Yet the evidence for this, beyond anecdotes, is slim. This paper reviews evidence on whether firms that do business in foreign countries are substituting foreign for domestic labor. The results of...
Employment has undergone a transformational change in most sectors of every industry. The industry has vigorously embraced the concept of outsourcing of employees. Entire organizations now consist of outsource staff hired through employment agencies and specialist firms established to provide outsourcing services The internet has revolutionized the way we conduct...
From the executive summary: ‘Over the past decades, the U.S. Temporary Help Services THS industry grew much more rapidly than overall employment. Contemporaneously, courts in most U.S. States adopted exceptions to the common law doctrine of employment at will that limited employers' discretion to terminate workers and opened them to...