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The European Union, Emerging Global Business and Human Rights: Introduction

Nissen, Aleydis - In: Cambridge Studies in European Law and Policy, (pp. 1-20). 2022

Emerging and developing states are home to powerful corporations capable of deploying economic activities on a global scale. But such corporations have to date been largely overlooked in the field of business and human rights. Treatment of such corporations has typically been in the context of...

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Enhanced Intergenerational Occupational Mobility Through Trade Expansion : Evidence from Vietnam

Mitra, Devashish; Pham, Hoang; Ural Marchand, Beyza P. - 2022

Using eight rounds of the Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys (VHLSSs) spanning 16 years and exploiting the US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) in 2001 as a large export shock, we investigate the impact of this shock on intergenerational occupational mobility in Vietnam employing a...

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Developing Countries and the Multilateral Trading System after Doha

Srinivasan, T. N. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2002

The Fourth Session of the Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO), held in Doha, Qatar, in November 2001, launched a new round of multilateral trade negotiations (MTN) and a work programme (WP) for the WTO involving the negotiating agenda and steps for meeting the challenges...

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Trade in tasks : revisiting the wage and employment effects of offshoring

Kohler, Wilhelm; Wrona, Jens - 2019

We revisit Grossman and Rossi-Hansberg's (2008) famous result, that under certain conditions offshoring of low … Rybczynski-type reallocation of factors to absorb offshoring-induced job displacement is ruled out. We allow for simultaneous … offshoring of both skilled and unskilled labor, and we derive new results on the role of factor-bias in offshoring, identifying …

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Maquiladoras and informality : a mixed blessing

Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario; Riaño, Alejandro - 2011

the equilibrium with an informal sector. -- offshoring ; informal sector ; maquiladoras ; trade and labor markets ; Mexico …

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Growth and Terms of Trade : A North-South Macroeconomic Framework

Sarkar, Prabirjit - 2007

In its process of growth and its attempt to catch up with the North, the South faces a terms of trade decline in a product cycle scenario. If the South is dependent on imports of northern machines, its growth rate would be adjusted to the growth rate of the North and the terms of trade would...

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The North-South Terms of Trade Debate : A Re-Examination

Sarkar, Prabirjit - 2007

Contrary to the classical proposition, the works of Prebisch and Singer launched the controversial hypothesis of long-term decline in the terms of trade of primary products vis-à-vis manufactures and a corresponding decline in the terms of trade of the South vis-à-vis the North. The present...

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Wage effects of U.S. service offshoring by skills and tasks

Püschel, Julia - 2013

In this paper, I estimate the impact of service offshoring on the real wages of U.S. workers by controlling for workers … results from a Mincerian wage regression indicate that within skill groups, the impact of service offshoring on real wages …' skill levels and the offshoring susceptibility of different tasks. Matching individual-level wage data with input …

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Offshoring within South African manufacturing firms : an analysis of the labour market effects

Pretorius, Anmar; Bezuidenhout, Carli; Matthee, Marianne; … - 2019

). Offshoring influences jobs and wages differently depending on the type of industry and worker. We provide a nuanced view of …, poor productivity performance, decreased labour demand, and increased imports of intermediate goods (offshoring activities … offshoring in South Africa, using firm- and employer-employee-level data to disentangle its impact on the labour market in terms …

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Trade Liberalization and Poverty : What We Know and Don't Know

Vos, Rob - 2008

Strong opinions about the impact of globalization on poverty are not always backed by robust factual evidence. As argued in this paper, however, it is not all that easy to lay our hands on robust facts. Quantitative analyses of trade liberalization appear highly sensitive to basic modelling and...

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