In a radical shift of policy, Cuba inaugurated in 1997 a number of export processing zones (EPZs). Despite generous tax incentives and an abundant supply of educated labour, investors have not rushed to the EPZs, except for one firm which has its eye on national rather than export markets. This...

This paper discusses the establishment of the minimum wage determination process in the early twentieth century Australia, following the institutionalisation of compulsory industrial arbitration between capital and labour. This process led to the 1907 Harvester judgment whereby the Common-...

Many previously-nontraded services have become tradable (or are expected to become so) as a result of the technological advances in information technology. That has raised concerns about the future of U.S. jobs and workers' incomes. However, a review of the evidence shows that the current extent...

South Korea has had a continuous engagement with significant trade, investment and security matters simultaneously in its relations with other nations. South Korea’s bilateralism with China is a part of a larger milieu which China has been constructing, that includes the Belt and Road...

This is a discussion of research findings on the interaction of the Japanese firms with Australia’s locational factors that affect their investment decisions in Australia. The paper argues that there is a convergence as well as divergence among the sixty-five companies from three industrial...

The characteristics of Japanese transnational automotive and electronic manufacturers in their overseas operations form a major topic of analysis. This paper discusses the data from Japanese electronics and automotive (auto and auto parts) manufacturers that were subjects of the author’s...

This research provided the study of importance of factors affecting the decision making of out-sourcing & supplier performance in Textiles domain. The textile market of USA is the scope of this research. The basis of this study allowed comprehending the importance / weight of factors of...

This chapter reviews the available evidence on the linkages between trade reform, labor markets, and FDI. We begin by drawing on studies of sixteen countries that underwent trade reforms in the 1980s and 1990s. These sixteen countries were chosen because of their inclusion in the United Nations...

This chapter reviews the evidence on the linkages between globalization and poverty, drawing on the collected works of Jagdish Bhagwati and the results of an National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) project directed by Ann Harrison, Globalization and Poverty. We focus on two measures of...

Based on a unique matched firm-worker panel dataset between 2007 and 2009, empirical results show that export participation has a positive impact on wages when taking account of firm characteristics alone. However, exporter wage premium completely vanishes when both firm and worker...