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Trade and labor reallocation with heterogeneous enforcement of labor regulations
Almeida, Rita; Poole, Jennifer P. - 2013
for broader access to the gains from trade. -- globalization ; enforcement ; labor market regulations ; employer …. We explore the fact that plants face varying degrees of exposure to global markets and to the enforcement of labor market … administrative data on employers matched to their employees and on the enforcement of labor regulations at the city level over Brazil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009739585
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Faces of joblessness in Italy : a people-centred perspective on employment barriers and policies
Pacifico, Daniele; Browne, James; Fernández, Rodrigo; … - 2018
In the aftermath of the financial and economic crisis, large shares of working-age individuals in Italy either did not work or only to a limited extent. As the employment rate bottomed out in 2013, 32% were without employment during the entire year, and a further 7% had weak labour-market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011903147
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Faces of joblessness in Australia : an anatomy of employment barriers using household data
Immervoll, Herwig; Pacifico, Daniele; Vandeweyer, Marieke - 2019
Australia's economy and labour market have escaped a dramatic downturn following the global financial economic crisis. Yet, a substantial share of working-age Australians either were not working or worked only to a limited extent as the global recovery gathered pace between 2013 and 2014. 18%...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005397
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Faces of joblessness in Ireland : a people-centred perspective on employment barriers and policies
Browne, James; Immervoll, Herwig; Fernández, Rodrigo; … - 2018
In the aftermath of the financial and economic crisis, large shares of working-age individuals in Ireland either did not work or only to a limited extent. As the labour-market recovery gathered pace during 2013, 32% were without employment during the entire year, and a further 14% had weak...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011871991
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Do foreign workers reduce trade barriers? : microeconomic evidence
Andrews, Martyn J.; Schank, Thorsten; Upward, Richard - 2015
This paper provides evidence that foreign workers reduce firms' trade costs and thus increase the probability that firms export. This informs both the literature on trade costs and the microeconomic literature on firms' export behaviour. We identify the nationality of each worker in a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011375970
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Pioneering a new approach to improving working conditions in developing countries : Better Factories Cambodia
Robertson, Raymond - 2020
The rise of global supply chains over the last three decades intensified international attention to the conditions endured by workers in poor countries. Collapsed buildings, fires and death created an imperative to address poor conditions. Consumers, non-governmental organizations,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012198522
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Trade and unemployment : what do the data say?
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Prat, Julien; Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - 2009
This paper documents a robust empirical regularity: in the long-run, higher trade openness is causally associated to a lower structural rate of unemployment. We establish this fact using: (i) panel data from 20 OECD countries, (ii) cross-sectional data on a larger set of countries. The time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003847129
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Working conditions, transparency, and compliance in global value chains : evidence from Better Work Jordan
Robertson, Raymond - 2019
This paper estimates how compliance with national labor law and international labor standards within Jordan's garment exporting factories changed after the implementation of a transparency program that made compliance assessments publicly available. The estimation employs data from Better Work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138844
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The welfare effects of globalization with labor market regulation
Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2015
I examine how globalization affects wages and welfare in a general equilibrium model of international trade with partly … oligopolistic markets. Globalization is modeled as reducing trade costs or opening up shielded sectors to trade. There is a national …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347148
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The impact of globalization and technology transfer on manufacturing employment and skills in Ethiopia
Haile, Getinet Astatike; Srour, Ilina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2013
countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization, which enhances the prospect of direct technological imports or embodied … played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010226717