, trade, and informal employment as illustrated by the maquiladora industry in Mexico (chapter 4), the interaction between … countries to additionally include informal employment (chapter 3) as well as the relation between foreign direct investment … der Maquiladora-Industrie in Mexiko (Kapitel 4), dem Zusammenspiel von Migration und Handel und deren Auswirkungen auf die …

behavior of firms and labor unions when firms threaten to use temporary agency employment in the bargaining process, 2) to … temporary agency employment to dampen the wage claims of labor unions. Furthermore, the model discusses how labor unions … agency employment in terms of their utility, firms gain from increasing profits and an extended employment level per firm. If …

chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … similar frameworks. In the first framework the profitability of offshoring is based on increasing returns to scale on the task …-level, whereas the second framework relies on differences in relative factor endowments of the two countries involved in offshoring …