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Job quality gaps between migrant and native gig workers : evidence from Poland

Kowalik, Zuzanna; Lewandowski, Piotr; Kaczmarczyk, Paweł - 2023

job satisfaction. Migrants who started a gig job immediately after arriving in Poland are particularly deprived. They also …, quantitative survey in Poland, we study taxi and delivery platform drivers' working conditions and job quality. We focus on the … gaps between natives and migrants, who constitute about a third of gig workers. Migrants take up gig jobs due to a lack of …

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Clans, cliques, and captured states: Rethinking transition in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union

Wedel, Janine R. - 2001

Informal systems of relationships may be the most appropriate unit of analysis for understanding the patterns of development of many aspects of corruption, organized crime, markets, and the state. The lack of attention to informal systems can produce unanticipated and undesired outcomes in...

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Thirty years of Socialist China in Portugal's Foreign Policy

Gonçalves, Arnaldo - 2012

The article looks to the status of Portugal-China bilateral relations in the context of an enormous trade deficit, the fading of Portuguese economic interests in Macao and China, and the removal of China as a vector of Portugal foreign policy. The author stresses that the causes of the...

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Law and Development : How We Got Here

Stephen, Frank - 2018

This chapter sets the scene for the analysis contained in the author's book: Law and Development: An Institutional Critique, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018.. It discusses the reasons for the interest in the relationship between the law and economic development beginning with a review of different...

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The Political Economy of Fixed Exchange Rate Regimes : The Experience of Post-Communist Countries

Bodea, Cristina - 2009

Exchange rate policy results not just from economic, but also from fundamentally political processes. This paper analyzes the propensity of policy makers to relax fixed exchange rate regimes by performing regular realignments. The argument is that when information is scarce as in transition...

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Financial Openness and Foreign Direct Investment in Nigeria : New Evidence

Aigheyisi, Oziengbe - 2020

The study provides new evidence on the effect of financial openness on FDI inflows in Nigeria using data that span the period from 1981 to 2016. The FMOLS estimator is employed. The study finds that financial openness is negatively and significantly related to FDI inflows, but its interaction...

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The Future of China’s Trade Pact and Intellectual Property Rights

Liu, Han-Wei - 2020

The past decades have witnessed a sea change in the international intellectual property rights (IPRs) regime. Among other developments, the rise of China as a new global power and its role in shaping IPRs by virtue of both domestic reforms and the participation in bilateral and multilateral...

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Sabotage from Abroad? The Economic Impact of U.S. Interference in Chile 1970-73

Walther, E. James - 2021

In 1973, Augusto Pinochet led a US-backed coup against Salvador Allende, Chile's democratically elected president. Pinochet's supporters argued that the coup was the only way to save the country amid statism and socioeconomic breakdown. But how much was Allende to blame for the crisis that...

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China's Corporate Social Responsibility with National Characteristics : Coherence and Dissonance with the Global Business and Human Rights Project

Backer, Larry Catá - 2015

This chapter shows how the social and institutional organization and political culture of China have affected how Chinese corporations approach the issue of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in general and CSR-based human rights responsibilities in particular. Part I examines the global...

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Beyond Ownership : State Capitalism and the Chinese Firm

Milhaupt, Curtis J. - 2015

Chinese state capitalism has been treated as essentially synonymous with state-owned enterprises (“SOEs”). But drawing a stark distinction between SOEs and privately owned enterprises (“POEs”) misperceives the reality of China's institutional environment and its impact on the formation...

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