Increasingly offshoring is concentrated on IT and business processes rather than on manufacturing. Multinational companies have focused primarily on offshoring skilled work to Asia rather than to Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) countries, neglecting the region's considerable supply of...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the effect of medical health benefits liabilities on firms’ share prices. First, we find that investors tend to over-react to healthcare obligations, with a one percent increment in healthcare liabilities leading to a more than one per cent decline in the...

In this paper we study the effect of pension provision on employee turnover in the UK. In Great Britain, there are three forms of pension coverage: the public social security system, occupational pension plans and personal pensions. We focus on the effect of occupational pension plans on job...