OUTSOURCING SLOWS FULL-TIME EMPLOYMENT.

CONTRACTING out; PRIVATE sector; PART-time employment; INDIANA University; UNIVERSITY of Georgia; CIVIL service; FERNANDEZ, Sergio; PRIVATIZATION

The article reports on the impact of private sector contracting on full-time employment according to an Indiana University and University of Georgia study. It notes that part-time government employment increases due to contracting out of services to private firms. Sergio Fernandez of the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, cites the impact of privatization on the public sector. He questions whether losing full-time employees and gaining part-timers is a good thing.