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NAFTA and drug-related violence in Mexico

Hidalgo, Eduardo; Hornung, Erik; Selaya, Pablo - 2022

We study how NAFTA changed the geography of violence in Mexico. We propose that this open border policy increased trafficking profits of Mexican cartels, resulting in violent competition among them. We test this hypothesis by comparing changes in drug-related homicides after NAFTA's introduction...

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Polygyny, inequality, and social unrest

Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura - 2021

are related to different dimensions of grievance-inducing and, partly, greed-related inequality, which may occur in … polygynous societies. These dimensions include (i) economic, reproductive and social inequality resulting in relative deprivation … among non-elite men; (ii) inequality within elites when it comes to the distribution of resources and inheritance, both …

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The twin effects of globalization : evidence from a sample of Indian manufacturing firms

Daveri, Francesco; Manasse, Paolo; Serra, Danila - 2010

Employees of globalized firms face a riskier menu of labor market outcomes. They face a more uncertain stream of earnings and riskier employment prospects. However, they may also have stronger incentives to train and upgrade their skills and/or may benefit from more rapid careers. Hence, the...

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Welfare policy in the presence of unionised labour and internationally mobile firms

Rocha-Akis, Silvia; Schöb, Ronnie - 2010

In oligopolistic industries, increased cost saving opportunities via offshoring have a moderating effect on trade unions. In order to discourage mobile firms from leaving the country, unions accept lower sector wages. In effect, the negotiated wage becomes independent of workers' bargaining...

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Does China still have a labor cost advantage?

Ceglowski, Janet Eve; Golub, Stephen S. - 2011

In recent years wages in China have been rising and the yuan has appreciated, potentially eroding China's cost advantage in manufactures. This paper explores the evolution of China's relative unit labor costs in manufacturing over 1998-2009. Between 1998 and 2003 China's unit labor costs fell,...

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Trade and unions : can exporters benefit from collective bargaining?

Capuano, Stella; Hauptmann, Andreas; Schmerer, Jans-Jörg - 2014

Unions are often stigmatized as being a source of inefficiency due to higher collective bargaining outcomes. This is in stark contrast with the descriptive evidence presented in this paper. Larger firms choose to export and are also more likely to adopt collective bargaining. We rationalize...

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Profit shifting, employee pay, and inequalities : evidence from US-listed companies

Souillard, Baptiste - 2022

anything, see their wages fall in the meantime. Furthermore, the inequality-deepening impact of firm entry into tax havens is …

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Dream jobs

Mion, Giordano; Opromolla, Luca David; Ottaviano, … - 2020

Understanding why certain jobs are 'better' than others and what implications they have for a worker's career is clearly an important but still relatively unexplored question. We provide both a theoretical frame-work and a number of empirical results that help distinguishing 'good' from 'bad'...

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Minimum wage, trade and unemployment in general equilibrium

Marjit, Sugata; Ganguly, Shrimoyee; Acharyya, Rajat - 2020

The path breaking work of Card and Krueger (1993), showing higher minimum wage can increase employment turned the age-old conventional wisdom on its head. This paper demonstrates that this apparently paradoxical result is perfectly plausible in a competitive general equilibrium production...

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Minimum wage non-compliance : the role of co-determination

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2023

We analyse in what way co-determination affects non-compliance with the German minimum wage, which was introduced in 2015. The Works Constitution Act (WCA), the law regulating co-determination at the plant level, provides works councils with indirect means to ensure compliance with the statutory...

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