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Multinational firms and qualification inflation in a hi‐tech labour market
Author(s) -
McGovern Patrick
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
new technology, work and employment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.889
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1468-005X
pISSN - 0268-1072
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-005x.1996.tb00064.x
Subject(s) - irish , multinational corporation , inflation (cosmology) , elite , business , labour economics , economics , political science , finance , law , philosophy , linguistics , physics , politics , theoretical physics
This article examines the role which elite MNC employers play in the process of qualification inflation within the Irish Republic. While these employers do not contribute towards inflation across technical occupations the tendency to select the most qualified within individual occupations has led to the emergence of a ‘graduate barrier’ between technicians and engineers/scientists.