Avoiding the employment relationship: outsourcing and labour substitution among French manufacturing firms, 1984–2003
Perraudin, Corinne ; Thévenot, Nadine ; Valentin, Julie
2013
152
3-4
December
525-547
contract ; employer ; labour relations ; industry ; labour contract ; liability ; statistics ; outsourcing
Employment
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1564-913X.2013.00192.x
English
Bibliogr.
"Using a comprehensive data set for French manufacturing firms with over 20 employees, the authors quantify the use of outsourcing and show how it has spread since the mid-1980s, leading to the substitution of external labour for in-house labour. Empirical analysis suggests that firms outsource in order to bypass the effects of the employment relationship and circumvent their labour law obligations."
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