Business
Study: U.S. hires fairly overseas
Champaign, Ill. | July 08, 2008 12:01:13 AM IST
U.S. companies are spreading good hiring practices around the globe as they set up business in developing countries, a University of Illinois study indicates. Firms based in America tend to follow U.S. hiring laws, even in countries without anti-discrimination laws, said John Lawler, a University of Illinois professor with the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations. American companies are very much emulated these days by companies all over the world, Lawler said in a news release issued by the Champaign, Ill., university. So I think to the extent they do these sorts of things, they create a very positive model that's going to have an impact internationally. The study, to be published in the Journal of International Business Studies, examined ads published by multinational corporations seeking management and professional workers in Taiwan and Thailand from 1993-1999, when the countries had no age or gender anti-discrimination laws, he said. About 10 percent of ads placed by companies based in the United States contained gender discrimination language, compared with 24 percent for European firms and 47 percent for Asian corporations, Lawler said. Age discrimination appearing in 12 percent of hiring ads by U.S. companies, 30 percent by European entities and more than 50 percent by Asian firms, he said. (UPI)
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