outsourcing

In Brazil, legalising outsourcing of security to specialised firms reduced hiring frictions, boosting formal jobs for young men, but came at a large and lasting cost to older guards in previously well-paid jobs.

Evidence from Mexico suggests that carefully designed outsourcing regulation can significantly improve wages without reducing employment in developing countries.

Legal constraints to firm growth incentivise large firms to find loopholes by hiring contract labour

Subsidising entrepreneurs to hire a marketing or accounting specialist can be more effective than trying to train the entrepreneur in these skills

Temp agency workers in Argentina receive 49% of the workplace-specific pay premia earned by regular workers in user firms

The developed world is deindustrialising. What does this mean and how has globalisation impacted this process?