Privatization
For news and information on privatization, contracting out or offshoring, visit the Privatization Update blog.
View ArticleDisplaced Workers and Their Search for Support in a Broken Bureaucracy
Source: Steven D. Schwinn, Clearinghouse Review Journal of Poverty Law and Policy, Vol. 42, p. 107, July-August 2008 From the abstract: The federal Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) programs provide...
View ArticleRegulatory Effects and Strategic Global Staffing Profiles: Beyond Cost...
Source: Stan Malos, Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, Published online: 25 April 2009 (subscription required) From the abstract: The practice of offshoring–staffing all or part of a...
View ArticleDownsizing Effects on Survivors: Layoffs, Offshoring, and Outsourcing
Source: Carl P. Maertz Jr., Jack W. Wiley, Cynthia Lerouge, Michael A. Campion, Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, Volume 49, Issue 2, April 2010 (subscription required) From the...
View ArticleThe Impact of International Outsourcing on Unionization and Wages: Evidence...
Source: Mark Anner, Industrial & Labor Relations Review, Volume 64, Number 2 , January 2011 (subscription required) From the abstract: It is often assumed that manufacturing workers in developing...
View ArticleOffshoring Bias in U.S. Manufacturing
Source: Susan Houseman, Christopher Kurz, Paul Lengermann and Benjamin Mandel, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 25, No. 2, Spring 2011 From the abstract: In this...
View ArticleSecrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze
Source: Marina Walker Guevara, Nicky Hager, Mar Cabra, Gerard Ryle and Emily Menkes, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, April 4, 2013 Secret records obtained by the International...
View ArticleOffshoring and the Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market
Source: Lindsay Oldenski, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 67 supplement, Spring 2014 (subscription required) From the abstract: Using firm-level data on offshoring paired with...
View ArticleLosing Sparta: The Bitter Truth Behind the Gospel of Productivity
Source: Esther Kaplan, Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 2014 …One morning in November 2010, a Philips executive no one recognized drove up and walked into the plant, accompanied by a security guard...
View ArticleOffshoring and Labor Markets
Source: David L. Hummels, Jakob Roland Munch, Chong Xiang, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), NBER Working Paper No. w22041, February 2016 (subscription required) From the abstract: We survey...
View ArticleWhy Tech Professionals Now Share A Fate With The Working Class
Source: Tamara Draut, Fast Company, March 30, 2016 What happened to manufacturing jobs a generation ago is now being repeated in the knowledge economy. … Companies are now sending many so-called...
View ArticlePrivate Equity, Layoffs, and Job Polarization
Source: Martin Olsson, Joacim Tåg, Journal of Labor Economics, Ahead of Print, March 29, 2017 (subscription required) From the abstract: Private equity firms are often criticized for laying off...
View Article
