Outsourcing: Causes and Consequences

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The paper presents an overview of the outsourcing controversy. The paper describes important research reports on this topic and evaluates their accuracy.

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"Outsourcing is a term applied to a variety of practices that in essence mean that entities external to a firm contract to perform functions that otherwise a firm's employees performed. When the issue of outsourcing first became a public issue in the United States two decades ago, the concern was that corporations were transferring in-house jobs to independent contractors who would hire lower wage and benefit employees to do the work of company employees under union contract."

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