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Development NGOs and labor unions : terms of engagement
Eade, Deborah (contributor); Leather, Alan (contributor) - 2005
Development NGOs and trade unions have much to gain from collaborating in the pursuit of a social justice and rights agenda, yet the two sectors have traditionally tended to operate independen ly of one another. The "another world is possible" movement; a continuing series of anti-globalization...
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Offshoring to a developing nation with a dual labor market
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; … - 2020
, but not necessarily formal-to-informal outsourcing, and, in response, the developed nation wage can fall. Productivity … improvements in the informal sector expand both offshoring and outsourcing, and the developed nation wage must rise. When the …
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Offshoring and the decline of unions
Munch, Jakob Roland; Olney, William W. - 2024
The prevalence of labor unions have declined post-WWII, and this paper examines whether globalization is a contributing factor. Offshoring jobs abroad may change the composition of domestic firms and employment and thus reduce union density. Alternatively, a firms' ability to offshore may erode...
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Competition for control over the labour process as a driver of relocation of activities to a shared services centre
Mezihorak, Petr - In: Human relations 71 (2018) 6, pp. 822-844
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The social desirability of offshoring : a Swiss consensus (1945-1975)
Pitteloud, Sabine - In: Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte : ZUG 64 (2019) 2, pp. 255-273
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Service Industrialization, Employment and Wages in the US Information Economy
Nath, Hiranya K.; Apte, Uday; Karmarkar, Uday S. - 2020
The US economy has undergone significant shifts towards services and towards information intensive industries. The latter trend has been driven by advances in information technology. These advances have concurrently led to substantial changes in the production and delivery of services,...
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Does international outsourcing depress union wages?
Braun, Sebastian (contributor);  … - 2007
In this paper, we provide first empirical evidence on the effect of outsourcing on union wages using linked employer … industries with high outsourcing intensities. The finding applies to both firm- and sector-level agreements. Hence, outsourcing … appears to deteriorate the bargaining position of unions. Outsourcing is not found to have a negative effect on the wages of …
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A note on the effect of outsourcing on union wages
Braun, Sebastian (contributor);  … - 2007
We analyze the effect of outsourcing on union wages in a simple two-stage game between a firm and a union. In contrast …. -- Collective Bargaining ; International Outsourcing ; Union Wages …
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The plant-moving threat as a motivation for offshoring
Kwon, Chul-Woo - In: Korea and the world economy 19 (2018) 1, pp. 51-84
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Does international outsourcing depress union wages?
Braun, Sebastian; Scheffel, Juliane - 2007
In this paper, we provide first empirical evidence on the effect of outsourcing on union wages using linked employer … industries with high outsourcing intensities. The finding applies to both firm- and sector-level agreements. Hence, outsourcing … appears to deteriorate the bargaining position of unions. Outsourcing is not found to have a negative effect on the wages of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263689