We use a unique firm-level panel data set of multinational parents and their foreign affiliates to analyse whether profits are shared across borders within multinational firms. Using both fixed-effects and generalized method-of-moments estimators, affiliate wage levels are estimated to respond...

Argues that achieving the ILO's decent work agenda requires that the conceptualization of employment be given a human face. Giving employment a human face will generate a richer intellectual perspective in which work is rooted in broader objectives than efficiency, and in which human rights and...

Using Current Population Survey data for 1983-93, this article analyzes whether there is a union membership wage premium among full-time, private sector employees covered by union contracts. Ordinary least squares estimates of the membership wage premium are 12%-14%, and allowing membership to...