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Helping Workers Online and Offline : Innovations in Union and Worker Organization Using the Internet

Freeman, Richard B. - 2008

This study examines two innovative efforts to provide union services to workers with the aid of low cost Internet … canvassing them at their homes and over the Internet (www.workingamerica.org); and the UK'S Trade Union Congress's www …

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From the Webbs to the Web : The Contribution of the Internet to Reviving Union Fortunes

Freeman, Richard B. - 2005

This paper shows that in the 2000s unions in the UK and US made innovative use of the Internet to deliver union …

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Will Unionism Prosper in Cyber-Space? The Promise of the Internet for Employee Organization

Diamond, Wayne J. - 2001

the Internet by unions in the United Kingdom and United States, we develop five hypothesis about the impact of the … Internet on unions. 1) the Customized Services hypothesis that unions will individualize services; 2) the Cyber …, Internet recruitment sites, specialized advice centers, and the like, to fill the e-union niche …

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Globalizing Activities and the Rate of Survival : Panel Data Analysis on Japanese Firms

Kimura, Fukunari - 2003

This paper conducts a Cox-type survival analysis of Japanese corporate firms using census-coverage data collected by METI. A study of exiting firms confirmed several characteristics of Japanese firms in the 1990s. First, excessive internalization in the corporate structure and activities is...

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International Diversification, Reallocation, and the Labor Share

David, Joel M.; Rancière, Romain; Zeke, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

How does growing international financial diversification affect firm-level and aggregate labor shares? We study this question using a novel framework of firm labor choice in the face of aggregate risk. The theory implies a cross-section of labor risk premia and labor shares that appear as...

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Exporting, Global Sourcing, and Multinational Activity : Theory and Evidence from the United States

Antràs, Pol; Fadeev, Evgenii; Fort, Teresa C.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Multinational firms (MNEs) dominate trade flows, yet their global production decisions are often ignored in firm-level studies of exporting and importing. Using newly merged data on US firms' trade and multinational activity by country, we show that MNEs are more likely to trade not only with...

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The Impact of AI and Cross-Border Data Regulation on International Trade in Digital Services : A Large Language Model

Sun, Ruiqi; Trefler, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and of cross-border restrictions on data flows has created a host of new questions and related policy dilemmas. This paper addresses two questions: How is digital service trade shaped by (1) AI algorithms and (2) by the interplay between AI algorithms and...

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Exploitation of Labor? Classical Monopsony Power and Labor's Share

Brooks, Wyatt J. - 2019

How important is the exercise of classical monopsony power against labor for the level of wages and labor's share? We examine this in the context of China and India - two large, rapidly-growing developing economies. Using theory, we develop a novel screen to quantify how wages are affected by...

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Disease, Downturns, and Wellbeing : Economic History and the Long-Run Impacts of COVID-19

Arthi, Vellore - 2020

How might COVID-19 affect human capital and wellbeing in the long run? The COVID-19 pandemic has already imposed a heavy human cost--taken together, this public health crisis and its attendant economic downturn appear poised to dwarf the scope, scale, and disruptiveness of most modern pandemics....

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How Far Are We From The Slippery Slope? The Laffer Curve Revisited

Trabandt, Mathias - 2009

We compare Laffer curves for labor and capital taxation for the US, the EU-14 and individual European countries, using a neoclassical growth model featuring "constant Frisch elasticity" (CFE) preferences. We provide new tax rate data. The US can increase tax revenues by 30% by raising labor...

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