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Welfare policy in the presence of unionised labour and internationally mobile firms
Rocha-Akis, Silvia; Schöb, Ronnie - 2009
In oligopolistic industries that are unionised and may be affected by offshoring, falling offshoring costs have a moderating effect on trade unions. They will accept lower sector wages in order to discourage mobile forms from leaving the country. Since such wages are independent of the workers'...
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Unions in Brazil : what to expect in the near future?
Campos, André Gambier - 2016
Nowadays, there is a growing debate about the role of collective bargaining in Brazilian labour regulation. Nonetheless … very promising in order to foster a negotiated labour regulation. However, on average, those unions present a fragile … constituency, unions gather little resources to negotiate new forms of labour regulation. To overcome those problems, some …
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Layoffs and productivity at a Bangladeshi sweater factory
Akerlof, Robert; Ashraf, Anik; Macchiavello, Rocco; … - 2023
Conflicts between management and workers are common and can have significant impacts on productivity. Combining ethnographic, survey and administrative records from a large Bangladeshi sweater factory, we study how workers responded to management's decision to lay off about a quarter of the...
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Growth maximizing patent life-time
Bucci, Alberto; Sağlam, Hüseyin Çağri - 2000
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Import-competition, market power and productivity change
Traca, Daniel A. - 1997
We explore how the competitive pressure of imports affects productivity, at the firm level. There are two conflicting effects of import-competition: the pro-competitive effect fosters productivity, while the direct effect hinders it. The pro-competitive effect dominates in the steady-state,...
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Economic incentives and international trade
Marin, Dalia; Schnitzer, Monika - 1997
This paper studies the importance of incentives as a determinant of international trade flows. We argue that barter, countertrade and foreign direct investment can be seen as efficient institutions that mitigate contractual hazards which arise in technology trade, marketing and imperfect capital...
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Dynamic selection : an idea flows theory of entry, trade and growth
Sampson, Thomas - 2014
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The importance of the embodied question revisited
Boucekkine, Raouf; Río Iglesias, Fernando del; … - 1999
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Technology diffusion and trade : an empirical investigation
Jaumotte, Florence - 1997
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Patience and comparative development
Sunde, Uwe; Dohmen, Thomas; Enke, Benjamin; Falk, Armin; … - 2021
This paper studies the relationship between patience and comparative development through a combination of reduced-form analyses and model estimations. Based on a globally representative dataset on time preference in 76 countries, we document two sets of stylized facts. First, patience is...
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