FOREIGN-INVESTMENT, LABOR IMMOBILITY AND THE QUALITY OF EMPLOYMENT

Jobs, not people, are moving abroad: growing economic integration is o ccurring against the backdrop of a relative immobility of labour; glob alization generates new patterns of dependence. with implications for national and international labour policy. The author examines the rela tive impact on the quantity, quality and location of jobs worldwide of MNCs' ''stand-alone'', ''simple-integration'' and ''complex-integrati on'' strategies and concludes that the rising quality of labour observ ed in many developing countries with improved physical and telecommuni cation infrastructures means expanded locational choices for MNCs, eas ier participation by these countries in international production, but also intensified competition.