Employability of offshore service sector workers in the Philippines: Opportunities for upward labour mobility or dead-end jobs?

Work, Employment and Society

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 823-841

  Beerepoot, Niels ^a   Hendriks, Mitch ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

business process outsourcing; employability; generic skills; offshoring; Philippines; service outsourcing sector

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885460723     PISSN: 09500170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0950017012469065     Document Type: Article

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