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Trade and labour standards : theory, new empirical evidence, and policy implications

Dehejia, Vivek Harsha; Samy, Yiagadeesen - 2002

Recent trade negotiations, both at the regional and multilateral level, have seen a resurgence of the issue of trade and labour standards. As the world economy becomes increasingly globalised and the volume of world trade flows keeps increasing between the North and the South, it is very likely...

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Trade unions Go global!

Donado, Alejandro (contributor); Wälde, Klaus (contributor) - 2008

Worker movements played a crucial role in making workplaces safer. Workplace safety is costly for firms but increases labour supply. A laissez-faire approach leaving safety of workplaces unknown is suboptimal. Safety standards set by better-informed trade unions are output and welfare...

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Can cross-border pollution reduce pollution?

Hatzipanayotou, Panos; Lahiri, Sajal; Michael, Michael S. - 2000

We develop a North-South model of foreign aid and cross-border pollution resulting from production activities in the … recipient country. There is both private and public abatement of pollution, the latter being financed through emissions tax … recipient chooses the fraction of aid allocated to pollution abatement and/or the emission tax rate. At this equilibrium, an …

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Intellectual property rights, technology transfer and exports in developing countries

Yang, Lei (contributor); Maskus, Keith E. (contributor) - 2008

We develop a model to analyze one mechanism under which stronger intellectual property rights (IPR) protection may improve the ability of firms in developing countries to break into export markets. A Northern firm with a superior process technology chooses either exports or technology transfer...

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North-South technology transfer in unionised multinationals

Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Meland, Frode; Straume, Odd Rune - 2010

We study how incentives for North-South technology transfers in multinational enterprises are affected by labour market institutions. If workers are collectively organised, incentives for technology transfers are partly governed by firms' desire to curb trade union power. This will affect not...

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A note on brain gain and brain drain : permanent migration and education policy

Haupt, Alexander; Krieger, Tim; Lange, Thomas - 2010

In this note, we present a novel channel for a brain gain. Students from a developing country study in a developed host country. A higher permanent migration probability of these students appears to be a brain drain for the developing country in the first place. However, it induces the host...

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Outsourcing, public input provision and policy cooperation

Aronsson, Thomas; Koskela, Erkki - 2009

This paper concerns public input provision as an instrument for redistribution under international outsourcing by using a model-economy comprising two countries, North and South, where firms in the North may outsource part of their low-skilled labor intensive production to the South. We consider...

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Labor unions, globalization, and mercantilism

Grieben, Wolf-Heimo; Sener, Fuat - 2009

We analyze the growth and welfare effects of globalization in a dynamic Schumpeterian North-South product-cycle model. Economic growth is driven by R&D activities of Northern entrepreneurs. Top Northern production technologies are imitated by the South. In the North, there is wage bargaining...

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Maskus, Keith E. (contributor); … - 2008

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Trade and development in a labor surplus economy

Barbier, Edward (contributor); Rauscher, Michael (contributor) - 2005

This paper looks at a model in which two countries trade agricultural and manufactured commodities. The manufactured-goods sector produces with increasing returns to scale under conditions of monopolistic competition. It is shown that an increase in land endowment (or an increase in agricultural...

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