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Globalization and executive compensation

Keller, Wolfgang; Olney, William W. - 2017

This paper identifies globalization as a factor behind the rapid increase in executive compensation and inequality over … executive compensation, indicating that globalization is influencing compensation through pay-for-non-performance. Furthermore … firms with poor corporate governance, as one would expect if globalization has enhanced rent-capture opportunities. Overall …

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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 … distributional effects of globalization and for the future of organized labor. …

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Globalization and inequality in Latin America

Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Kovak, Brian K. - 2023

We survey the recent literature studying the effects of globalization on inequality in Latin America. Our focus is on … dimensions of inequality, and developing new methodologies to capture the many facets of globalization's relationship to … that focus on distinct aspects of globalization's relationship to inequality. …

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Economic and social upgrading dynamics in global manufacturing value chains : a comparative analysis

Bernhardt, Thomas; Pollak, Ruth - 2015

, globalization has intensified international competition, and achieving economic upgrading is not an easy task. Moreover, the social …

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Global engagement, complex tasks, and the distribution of occupational employment

Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven J.; … - 2015

Building on a framework introduced by Chaney and Ossa (2013), we construct a task-based model of the firm's choice of occupational inputs to examine how that choice varies with greater global engagement. We depart from Chaney and Ossa by assuming that more complex tasks are more costly to...

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Global production networks and employment : a developing country perspective

Shepherd, Ben; Stone, Susan F. - 2013

greater opportunities for women to enter the formal labour market. …

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Long-term effect of international trade on the gender wage and educational gaps

Yamamura, Eiji - 2016

This paper uses cross-country data to examine the long-term effect of trade openness on the gender gaps in wages, education, political empowerment and health. Key findings are: trade openness since 1970 reduced the gender gaps in wages and educational attainment as of 2011 but did not influence...

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Made on Earth : How Global Economic Integration Renders Trade Policy Obsolete

Ikenson, Daniel J. - 2013

During the past few decades, a truly global division of labor has emerged, presenting opportunities for specialization, collaboration, and exchange on scales once unimaginable. The confluence of falling trade and investment barriers, revolutions in communications and transportation, the opening...

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Automation, Globalization and Vanishing Jobs : A Labor Market Sorting View

Faia, Ester - 2020

We show, theoretically and empirically, that the effects of technological change associated with automation and offshoring on the labor market can substantially deviate from standard neoclassical conclusions when search frictions hinder efficient assortative matching between firms with...

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Book Review : Labour Laws and Global Trade by Bob Hepple

Blackett, Adelle - 2017

Over roughly the last ten years, there has been an explosion of scholarship on transnational labour law, as commentators attempt to come to terms with the shifting labour law paradigm in the new economy. Most of the work has filled law review pages. Fortunately, Sir Bob Hepple has led the way in...

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