Child labor is often condemned as a form of exploitation. I explore how the notion of exploitation, as used in everyday … language, can be made precise in economic models of child labor. Exploitation is defined relative to a specific social welfare … distinctions that common usage of the term exploitation allows. I resolve this conflict by introducing a welfare function with …

exploitation to occur, we find that agent compliance is significantly lower for exploitative principals who use high … from them. To corroborate our interpretation of the results we show that a surveyed "exploitation aversion" scale moderates … this effect. Exploitation averse participants are less likely to comply with the incentives than exploitation tolerant …

and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the … varies by sector, FDI source, business environment (corruption, red tape, level of development), firm's distance to the …

We estimate the wage effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) with universal firm-level and linked employer … strong cross-firm association of FDI wage premia with similar differentials in productivity. …

compared with the western region. Foreign direct investment (FDI) and information and communication technology (ICT) investment …

The impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestically owned firms in developing countries has been widely … debated in the literature. It has been argued that FDI provides access to advanced technologies and other intangible assets … literature on this issue, for obvious reasons, little is known about the effect of FDI on domestic firms in the African context …

played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …

We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by … 1999 to 2003. Our results show that foreign capital participation is associated with higher innovative activity. Inward FDI … in the sector has a negative effect on innovative activity in SOEs. However, there is a positive effect of FDI on SOEs …