Avoiding the Employment Relationship: Outsourcing and Labour Substitution among French Manufacturing Firms, 1984-2003

Corinne Perraudin (), Nadine Thevenot () and Julie Valentin ()
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Corinne Perraudin: CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Nadine Thevenot: CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Julie Valentin: CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: Using a comprehensive data set for French manufacturing firms with over twenty 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.

Keywords: Firm; Firms; Labor Law; Law; Manufacturing; Outsource; Outsourcing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-12
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Published in International Labour Review, 2013, 152 (3-4), pp.525-547. ⟨10.1111/j.1564-913X.2013.00192.x⟩

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DOI: 10.1111/j.1564-913X.2013.00192.x

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