This paper investigates the effects of multinational corporations on labor standards. We argue that the previous literature has failed to distinguish the different motives that encourage firms to become multinational. Therefore, we build a stylized model of segmented labor markets with...

Focusing on Panama and globalization, this paper opts to suggest how Panama could integrate itself better to a fairer globalization. Panama can benefit from economic growth, greater social cohesion, and higher standards of living brought by globalisation, but so far these benefits have been...

Part 1 Comparative employment relations. 1 Introduction: global challenges at work / John Kelly and Carola Frege; 2 Theoretical perspectives on comparative employment relations / Carola Frege and John Kelly -- Part 2 Employment relations challenges in comparative perspective. 3 Globalization and...

In a stylized model of multinational firms choosing host locations for their global value chains, host-country governments choose the strength of collective-bargaining rights that allow their workers to receive a share of the resulting quasi-rents. Each government must trade off the direct...