employment

Other Forms of Employment: Temporary Employment Agencies and Self-Employment

Other Forms of Employment: Temporary Employment Agencies and Self-Employment In most industrialized countries the majority of employed people are full-time employees with a non-temporary job and work at a workplace of the company in which they are employed. They are making careers at the employer they are employed by and most work-place changes are to other jobs of the same type. But it does no...

New forms of employment Crowd employment, Spain

Crowd employment platforms in Spain are a rather recent development. However, they have experienced remarkable growth during the economic crisis. The number of workers and clients has increased in the sectors already using crowd employment (including creative design), and the phenomenon has spread to other sectors such as housing and design, computing, book editing and translation (InfoCrowdsou...

Making employment

Linda Dickens There has been considerable expansion in statutory individual employment rights in Britain over the past forty or so years. But the development of a more comprehensive role for legislation in regulating the employment relationship has not been accompanied by any strategic consideration of the mechanisms for enforcement of rights. The Employment Tribunals (ETs) constitute the predo...

Full Employment

Domestic Employment

Elizabeth Weber Handwerker, Mina M. Kim, and Lowell Mason The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) collects data on multinational companies based in the United States—firms that have full or partial ownership of affiliate companies in foreign countries. However, BEA data offer little detail on the characteristics of these firms’ U.S. employment. Identifying such firms in BLS data can show the geog...