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Observations on International Labor Standards and Trade

Krueger, Alan B. - 1996

This paper reviews the theoretical arguments for and against linking international labor standards to trade. Based on theory alone it is difficult to generalize about the effect of labor standards on efficiency and equity. Some economists have argued that international labor standards are merely...

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The Same Yet Different : Worker Reports on Labour Practices and Outcomes in a Single Firm Across Countries

Freeman, Richard B. - 2007

This paper examines cross-country differences in labour policies and practices and employee performance and attitudes toward work from a sample of nearly 30,000 employees in a large multinational manufacturing firm. The analysis shows: 1) large establishment and country differences in work...

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The 2004 Global Labor Survey : Workplace Institutions and Practices Around the World

Chor, Davin - 2005

respectively to the Fraser Institute and World Economic Forum reports, the GLS and the labor market components of the economic … countries around the world, covering issues such as freedom of association, the regulation of work contracts, employee benefits …) and competitiveness (World Economic Forum) …

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Skill-specific rather then General Education : A Reason for US-Europe Growth Differences?

Krueger, Dirk - 2003

In this paper, we develop a model of technology adoption and economic growth in which households optimally obtain … between their growth rates will increase with the growth rate of available technology. By characterizing the optimal Ramsey … available technology. Our theory suggests that European education policies that favored specialized, vocational education might …

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Hours of Work and the Fair Labor Standards Act : A Study of Retail and Wholesale Trade, 1938-1950

Costa, Dora L. - 1998

I examine the impact of the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards on weekly hours worked between 1938 and 1950 by comparing workers in wholesale trade, a sector which was covered by the Act, with those in retail trade, a sector which was not. I find that the Act reduced hours worked,...

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Immigration and the Quality of Jobs

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1997

A precondition for the absence of labor-market competition between immigrants and natives is that they differ in their willingness to accept work that offers different amenities. The implications of a model embodying this assumption are that immigrants will be observed experiencing inferior...

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The Impact Of New Unionization On Wages And Working Conditions : A Longitudinal Study Of Establishments Under NLRB Elections

Freeman, Richard B. - 1988

This study investigates the impact of union organization on the wages and labor practices of establishments newly organized in the 1980s using a research design in which establishments are 'paired' with their closest nonunion competitor. There are two major findings. First. unionism had only a...

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Wages and Working Conditions

Saffer, Henry - 1984

This paper presents another extension of the approach initiated by Brown. As in Brown's work, the wage change specification is used to control for bias due to omitted ability data. Then, as in Duncan and Hoimlund's study, working conditions are measured using subjective self?reported data....

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How Are Employers Responding to an Aging Workforce?

Clark, Robert L. - 2020

The American population is aging and changes in the population's age structure are leading to an aging of the nation's workforce. In addition, changes to age specific participation rates are exacerbating the aging of the national labor force. An important challenge for firms and organizations is...

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Understanding Trends in Alternative Work Arrangements in the United States

Katz, Lawrence F. - 2019

This paper describes and tries to reconcile trends in alternative work arrangements in the United States using data from the Contingent Worker Survey supplements to the Current Population Survey (CPS) for 1995 to 2017, the 2015 RAND-Princeton Contingent Work Survey (CWS), and administrative tax...

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