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The growing divergence in U.S. employee relations : individualism, democracy, and conflict
Norlander, Peter - 2019
The growing divergence in U.S. employee relations is described through a review of national and state-level changes to … described. An analysis of changes to state employment policies since 2000 shows an increasing ideologically driven divergence …. Instability and divergence are major features of the U.S. system of employee relations that require additional scrutiny. …
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Regulating the Fissured Workplace : The Notion of the ‘Employer’ in Chinese Labour Law
Zou, Mimi - 2018
The term 'fissured workplace' has been coined by David Weil to describe fundamental changes in the organisation of work arising from firms' competitive strategies in the 21st century. As Weil put it, fissurisation refers to 'both a form of employment (for example, temporary agency employment;...
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Firm-level employment, labour market reforms, and bank distress
Setzer, Ralph; Stieglitz, Moritz - 2019
We explore the interaction between labour market reforms and financial frictions. Our study combines a new cross-country reform database on labour market reforms with matched firm-bank data for nine euro area countries over the period 1999 to 2013. While we find that labour market reforms are...
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Credit shocks, employment protection, and growth : firm-level evidence from Spain
Laeven, Luc; McAdam, Peter; Popov, Alexander - 2018
We offer new evidence on the real effects of credit shocks in the presence of employment protection regulations by exploiting a unique provision in Spanish labor laws: dismissal rules are less stringent for Spanish firms with fewer than 50 employees, lowering the cost of hiring new workers....
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A Race to the Bottom? Employment Protection and Foreign Direct Investment
Olney, William W. - Center for Development Economics, Williams College - 2010
A common critique of globalization is that it leads to a race to the bottom. Speci?cally, it is assumed that multinationals invest in countries with lower regulatory standards and that countries competitively undercut each other's standards in order to attract foreign capital. This paper tests...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002064
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A Race to the Bottom? Employment Protection and Foreign Direct Investment
Olney, William W. - Economics Department, Williams College - 2010
A common critique of globalization is that it leads to a race to the bottom. SpeciÂ…cally, it is assumed that multinationals invest in countries with lower regulatory standards and that countries competitively undercut each other's standards in order to attract foreign capital. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002070
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A race to the bottom? Employment protection and foreign direct investment
Olney, William W. - In: Journal of International Economics 91 (2013) 2, pp. 191-203
A common critique of globalization is that it leads to a race to the bottom. Specifically, it is assumed that multinationals invest in countries with lower regulatory standards and that countries competitively undercut each other's standards in order to attract foreign capital. This paper tests...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010730209
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G-20-Gipfel in London: Ein Durchbruch zur Regulierung der Finanzmärkte?
Langhammer, Rolf J.; Neuberger, Doris; Polleit, Thorsten; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
Reichen die auf dem G-20-Gipfel beschlossenen Maßnahmen aus, die Finanzmärkte zu regulieren und die Wahrscheinlichkeit zukünftiger Krisen zu senken? Für Rolf J. Langhammer, Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Kiel, dienten die Beschlüsse des G-20-Gipfels der Krisenüberwindung und dem Versuch,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010982929
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G-20-Gipfel in London: Ein Durchbruch zur Regulierung der Finanzmärkte?
Langhammer, Rolf J.; Neuberger, Doris; Polleit, Thorsten; … - In: Ifo-Schnelldienst 62 (2009) 11, pp. 3-16
Reichen die auf dem G-20-Gipfel beschlossenen Maßnahmen aus, die Finanzmärkte zu regulieren und die Wahrscheinlichkeit zukünftiger Krisen zu senken? Für Rolf J. Langhammer, Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Kiel, dienten die Beschlüsse des G-20-Gipfels der Krisenüberwindung und dem Versuch,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332928
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Labour market institutions in small Pacific island countries : main guidelines for labour market reforms
Malo Ocaña, Miguel Angel - 2017
This report consists of a comprehensive overview of labour market institutions in the small Pacific island countries in order to propose recommendations to improve the performance of their labour markets. We pay particular attention to three countries: Fiji, Palau and Papua New Guinea. We focus...
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