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Challenges to globalization : analyzing the economics
Baldwin, Robert E. (ed.) - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001791053
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Migration, Social Standards and Replacement Incomes : How to Protect Low-income Workers in the Industrialized Countries Against the Forces of Globalization and Market Integration
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2004
This paper discusses how an industrialized country could defend the wages and social benefits of its unskilled workers against wage competition from immigrants. It shows that fixing social standards harms the workers and that fixing social replacement incomes implies migration into unemployment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467892
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Trade Wars : The Exaggerated Impact of Trade in Economic Debate
Freeman, Richard B. - 2003
The rules governing trade and capital flows have been at the center of controversy as globalization has proceeded. One …, IMF, and World Bank meetings demanding global labor standards. Comparing the claims made in this debate with the outcomes … market. Changes in trade policy have had modest impacts on labour market. Other aspects of globalization -- immigration …
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Global Value Chains and Labor Standards : The Race-to-the-Bottom Problem
Im, Hye-jun; McLaren, John - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
countries join the world economy so that globalization increases at the margin, labor standards worsen (improve) at the margin …We ask how globalization affects a government's incentives to set labor standards for its workers. In a stylized … with globalization than it would under autarky, because labor standards are a normal good and the general increase in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322750
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International taxation and multinational activity
Hines, James R. (ed.) - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013480776
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The New Systems Competition
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2002
While the old systems competition took place with closed borders, globalisation has brought about a new type of systems competition that is driven by the mobility of factors of production. The new systems competition will likely imply the erosion of the European welfare state, induce a race to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469968
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Across-Country Wage Compression in Multinationals
Hjort, Jonas - 2020
. Multinationals that anchor-to-the headquarters also transmit wage changes arising from shocks to minimum wages and exchange rates in … the home country/state to their foreign establishments. Such multinationals fire more low-skill workers and hire fewer new … headquarter wages, but not after a temporary (exchange rate-induced) one. We show this using data on 1,060 multinationals …
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International differences in the business practices and productivity of firms
Freeman, Richard B. (ed.); Shaw, Kathryn (contributor) - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003774896
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Topics in empirical international economics : a festschrift in honor of Robert E. Lipsey
Blomström, Magnus (ed.); Lipsey, Robert E. (honouree);  … - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001511918
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Moving Up or Moving Out? Anti-Sweatshop Activists and Labor Market Outcomes
Harrison, Ann - 2004
During the 1990s, human rights and anti-sweatshop activists increased their efforts to improve working conditions and raise wages for workers in developing countries. These campaigns took many different forms: direct pressure to change legislation in developing countries, pressure on firms,...
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