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Avoiding the employment relationship: Outsourcing and labour substitution among French manufacturing firms, 1984–2003
Author(s) -
PERRAUDIN Corinne,
THÈVENOT Nadine,
VALENTIN Julie
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
international labour review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.433
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1564-913X
pISSN - 0020-7780
DOI - 10.1111/j.1564-913x.2013.00192.x
Subject(s) - outsourcing , labour economics , substitution (logic) , order (exchange) , manufacturing , business , labour law , economics , empirical research , marketing , finance , philosophy , epistemology , computer science , programming language
Abstract 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.