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Trade, Offshoring, and the Invisible Handshake

Karabay, Bilgehan - 2010

We study the effect of globalization on the volatility of wages and worker welfare in a model in which risk is … allocated through long-run employment relationships (the 'invisible handshake'). Globalization can take two forms: International … raising the volatility of their wages. We thus formalize, but also sharply circumscribe, a common critique of globalization …

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Family Firms, Paternalism, and Labor Relations

Müller, Holger M. - 2007

Using firm-, industry-, and country-level data, we document a link between family ownership and labor relations. Across countries, we find that family ownership is relatively more prevalent in countries in which labor relations are difficult, consistent with firm-level evidence suggesting that...

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The Biophysical and Economic Geographies of Global Climate Impacts on Agriculture

Baldos, Uris Lantz C. - 2018

agriculture. It does so by bridging the extensive literature on climate impacts on yields and physical productivity in global crop …

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Gravity and Comparative Advantage : Estimation of Trade Elasticities for the Agricultural Sector

Heerman, Kari - 2018

In this paper, a structural gravity model is presented which features intra-sector heterogeneity in agricultural productivity systematically linked to land and climate characteristics. The “systematic heterogeneity” (SH) gravity model predicts that countries with similar land and climate...

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Ricardo's Theory of Comparative Advantage : Old Idea, New Evidence

Costinot, Arnaud - 2012

crops of 1.6 million parcels of land in 55 countries around the world. Crucially, this dataset contains information about … output predicted by Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage. Despite all of the real-world considerations from which this …

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Analyzing the Impact of the World's Largest Public Works Project on Crime

Das, Satadru - 2016

India started the implementation of a rural public works program in 2006, covering all districts of the country within three years. The program quarantees 100 days of employment per year at minimum wage to each rural household on demand, with the goal of reducing joblessness and poverty. We...

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The Impact of Retaliatory Tariffs on Agricultural and Food Trade

Carter, Colin Andre; Steinbach, Sandro - 2022

This paper analyzes the short-run trade effects of retaliatory tariffs against agriculture and food exports from the … United States. The results indicate that these tariffs caused a substantial decline in U.S. agriculture and food exports and …

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The Food Problem and the Aggregate Productivity Consequences of Climate Change

Nath, Ishan - 2022

heat reduces non-agricultural productivity, but less so than in agriculture, implying that hot countries could adapt to … perversely pulls labor into agriculture where its productivity suffers most and reallocation exacerbates the global decline in …

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Individual Rights and Collective Agents : The Role of Old and New Workplace Institutions in the Regulation of Labor Markets

Weil, David N. - 2021

Implementation of workplace policies--whether through enforcement of laws or administration of programs--raises the question of the interaction between institutions created to carry out laws and the activities of workplace based agents that directly (e.g. unions) or indirectly (e.g. insurance...

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The Impact of New Unionization on Wages and Working Conditions : a Longitudinal Study of Establishments Under Nlrb Elections

Freeman, Richard B. - 2010

This study investigates the impact of union organization on the wages and labor practices of establishments newly organized in the 1980s using a research design in which establishments are 'paired' with their closest nonunion competitor. There are two major findings. First. unionism had only a...

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