This paper analyses the UK market for Defined Benefit (DB) pension buyouts and considers its implications for the USA. A DB pension fund buyout refers to a transaction in which a pension plan sponsor pays another company a fee to take over the assets and liabilities of the pension plan. Using...

Shows that since the late 1970s wage distribution is shifting downhill and becoming more skewed, with a proliferation of low-income employment.

The paper presented three related issues. A first objective was to shed light on some of the facts of the employment impacts of trade and investments abroad, including highly controversial themes as off-shoring of the production of goods and services. A second objective was to debate the options...

ILO pub. Working paper on employment effects of multinational enterprises, comprising a case study of the USA - covers the theoretical perspective, employment opportunity losses and gains, quality of employment created, unemployment duration etc. Of both USA multinationals and foreign...