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Are All Labor Regulations Equal? Assessing the Effects of Job Security, Labor Dispute, and Contract Labor Laws in India
Ahsan, Ahmad - 2016
This paper studies the economic effects of legal amendments on different types of labor laws. It examines the effects of amendments to labor dispute laws and amendments to job security legislation. It also identifies the effects oflegal amendments related to the most contentious regulation of...
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Trade Flows and Trade Disputes
Bown, Chad P. - 2017
This paper introduces a new data set and establishes a set of basic facts and patterns regarding the trade that countries fight about under World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement. The paper characterizes the scope of products, as well as the levels of and changes to the trade values,...
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Tariff Retaliation Versus Financial Compensation in the Enforcement of International Trade Agreements
Limão, Nuno - 2006
The authors analyze whether financial compensation is preferable to the current system of dispute settlement in the World Trade Organization that permits member countries to impose retaliatory tariffs in response to trade violations committed by other members. They show that monetary fines are...
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Preferential Liberalization, Antidumping, and Safeguards : Stumbling Block Evidence from Mercosur
Bown, Chad P. - 2018
There is not yet consensus in the trade agreements literature as to whether preferential liberalization leads to more or less multilateral liberalization. However, research thus far has focused mostly on tariff measures of import protection. This paper develops more comprehensive measures of...
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Arbitrating and Mediating Disputes : Benchmarking Arbitration and Mediation Regimes for Commercial Disputes Related to Foreign Direct Investment
Pouget, Sophie - 2017
An effective commercial arbitration regime matters for foreign investors. It gives parties the autonomy to create a … dispute resolution system tailored to increasingly complex disputes. Foreign investors view arbitration as a way to mitigate … Disputes indicators assess the legal and institutional framework for commercial arbitration, mediation, and conciliation …
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Trade Policy Flexibilities and Turkey : Tariffs, Antidumping, Safeguards, and WTO Dispute Settlement
Bown, Chad P. - 2017
Trade policy commitments to lower import tariffs and to maintain tariffs at low levels entail short and long-run political-economic costs and benefits. Empirical work examining the relationship between such commitments and the exercise of trade policy flexibilities is still relatively nascent,...
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Cotton Subsidies, the WTO, and The'Cotton Problem'
Baffes, John - 2017
commodities, which reflects, for the most part, the large supply response by China and India, a direct consequence of con …
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U.S. Antidumping : Much Ado About Zeroing
Bown, Chad P. - 2017
The United States use of "zeroing" in its antidumping procedures has become a political flash point threatening some legitimacy of the WTO's dispute settlement system. This paper provides a positive analysis of the zeroing issue, explains how it has evolved and who is likely to be affected by...
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Developing Countries, Dispute Settlement, and the Advisory Centre on WTO Law
Bown, Chad P. - 2017
Critical appraisals of the current and potential benefits from developing country engagement in the World Trade Organization (WTO) focus mainly on the Doha Round of negotiations. This paper examines developing country participation in the WTO dispute settlement system to enforce foreign market...
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India's Internal Labor Migration Paradox : The Statistical and the Real
Nayyar, Gaurav - 2018
Internal labor migration rates in India have been largely static and low in recent times compared with those in other … the India Human Development Survey, which provides a more recent source of data compared with the Census and other …-12, empirical analysis based on the India Human Development Survey highlights several socioeconomic factors associated with the …
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