This paper provides a literature review on the labor market outcome of international trade and outsourcing trends in developed countries, focusing on employment, wage rates, and wage dispersions. However, the literature offers ambiguous answers. International trade and outsourcing are examined...

1. Introduction : temporary agency work and globalisation / Huiyan Fu -- 2. Selling flexibility, institutionalising insecurity : the US temporary agency work industry in the 1970s / Erin Hatton -- 3. Bridges or traps? Employment precariousness, temporary agency work and the labour market status...

This book highlights the increasing need for people who will be working in professions such as teaching, health, engineering and business management to have the skills for living and working in a global society. Globalisation and the challenges resulting from recent political events in Europe...