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National Labor Relations Act guarantees employees the right to engage in concerted activities for mutual aid or protection. The … 60 million U.S. workers, and those requiring class waiver in arbitration keep labor and employment claims hidden, and …
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The issue of global labour standards has been at the forefront of both regional and multilateral trade negotiations over the past two decades, and will likely remain high on the agenda of future trade talks as North-South trade flows continue to increase. Labour interests in high-standards...
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It has been widely argued that international agreements over labor standards are undesirable because they are bound to … quot;hurt those that they are meant to help.quot; We develop a model in which an appropriately designed international labor …
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The United States is currently trying to manage a fast-moving public health crisis due to the coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19). The economic and financial ramifications of the outbreak are serious. This Working Paper discusses these ramifications and identifies three interrelated but potentially...
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The efforts of IMO on the security of ports and ships after 11/9 are presented. IMO's resolution on fatigue of crews -cause of marine accidents- is also presented. The introduction of ISPS code -carried out under the pressure of USA- made by a non holistic approach, created a number of issues...
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associated with superior long-run returns in flexible labor markets, such as the US and UK, but not rigid labor markets, such as …. These results are consistent with employee satisfaction improving recruitment, retention, and motivation in flexible labor …
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We conduct a large-scale global study of ESG-linked pay for major firms that make up 85% of the market capitalization across 59 countries. We find that the pay adoption is higher for firms in extractive and utility industries, in countries that value individualism and femininity, have stronger...
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Flexible labor markets require geographically mobile workers to be efficient. Otherwise, firms can take advantage of … costly. Thus, individuals with strong family ties rationally choose regulated labor markets to avoid moving and limiting the … labor market regulations. There are also positive cross-country correlations between the strength of family ties and labor …
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The existing literature investigating the labor market impact of immigration assumes, implicitly or explicitly, that … the law or labor regulation is exogenous to immigration. To test this assumption, we build a novel workers' protection … measure based on 36 labor law variables that capture labor regulation over a sample of 70 developed and developing countries …
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