short-term international assignments are defined as being less than a year in duration, with expatriate assignments generally between a year and five years in length qualify short-term international assignments as being between three months and one year in duration, while define a short-term international assignment as a temporary internal transfer to a foreign subsidiary of between one and twelve months duration. For the purpose of this paper, we refer to short-term international assignments as temporary foreign assignments of less than one year duration, in keeping with