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Pop Internationalism : Has A Half Century of World Music Trade Displaced Local Culture?
Ferreira, Fernando - 2010
Advances in communication technologies over the past half century have made the cultural goods of one country more readily available to consumers in another, raising concerns that cultural products from large economies - in particular the US - will displace the indigenous cultural products of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462688
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Who Owns the Media?
Djankov, Simeon - 2001
We examine the patterns of media ownership in 97 countries around the world. We find that almost universally the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470436
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The Same Yet Different : Worker Reports on Labour Practices and Outcomes in a Single Firm Across Countries
Freeman, Richard B. - 2007
This paper examines cross-country differences in labour policies and practices and employee performance and attitudes toward work from a sample of nearly 30,000 employees in a large multinational manufacturing firm. The analysis shows: 1) large establishment and country differences in work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465420
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The 2004 Global Labor Survey : Workplace Institutions and Practices Around the World
Chor, Davin - 2005
respectively to the Fraser Institute and World Economic Forum reports, the GLS and the labor market components of the economic … countries around the world, covering issues such as freedom of association, the regulation of work contracts, employee benefits …) and competitiveness (World Economic Forum) …
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Observations on International Labor Standards and Trade
Krueger, Alan B. - 1996
This paper reviews the theoretical arguments for and against linking international labor standards to trade. Based on theory alone it is difficult to generalize about the effect of labor standards on efficiency and equity. Some economists have argued that international labor standards are merely...
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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 …
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What Drives Media Slant? Evidence from U.S. Daily Newspapers
Gentzkow, Matthew - 2006
We construct a new index of media slant that measures whether a news outlet.s language is more similar to that of a congressional Republican or Democrat. We apply the measure to study the market forces that determine political con- tent in the news. We estimate a model of newspaper demand that...
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Media and Social Capital
Campante, Filipe R.; Durante, Ruben; Tesei, Andrea - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We survey the empirical literature in economics on the impact of media technologies on social capital. Motivated by a simple model of information and collective action, we cover a range of different outcomes related to social capital, from social and political participation to interpersonal...
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Information Frictions and News Media in Global Value Chains
Bui, Ha; Huo, Zhen; Levchenko, Andrei A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We introduce information frictions into a tractable quantitative multi-country multi-sector model with global value chains. Producers in a sector do not perfectly observe contemporaneous shocks to other countries and sectors, and their output decisions respond to their idiosyncratic beliefs...
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Persistent Effects of Violent Media Content
Lindo, Jason M. - 2020
We document the immediate and long-term effects of violent media. Specifically, we evaluate the effects of The Ultimate Fighter, a hit TV show that features fighters competing in violent mixed martial arts and which brought Ultimate Fighting Championship into the mainstream. We estimate the...
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