Striking for a Just Transition? North American Auto Unions and the Electric Vehicle Transition
ABSTRACT Decarbonization heightens risks for workers, but union strategies shape how these risks are managed and whether new jobs offer quality employment. This paper compares U.S. and Canadian auto unions during the 2023 Detroit Three bargaining, focusing on strategic capacities and internal politics to explain their divergent responses to the EV ...
Mathieu Dupuis, Ian Greer, Dongwoo Park
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El TLCAN y más allá de el: Retos en el libre comercio
El Tratado de Libre Comercio de Norte América (ALCA) parece haber logrado sus objetivos sin planes adicionales para continuar negociando otras provisiones para el tratado. Sin embargo, con la intención de seguir avanzando el comercio de Norte América, el
Maritza Soto
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The Return of Industrial Policy in the EU: A Chance for Central and Eastern Europe?
Abstract This contribution explores the Visegrad four's (V4) responses to the revival of industrial policy in the European Union (EU). To a region so highly industrialised, and so dependent on foreign firms, this revival brings mixed blessings. Industrial policy focused on ‘European champions’ is driving investment towards core regions and firms ...
Vera Šćepanović, Imre G. Szabó
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More Competition, Better Products: Evidence From Tariff Cuts
ABSTRACT This article examines how increased competition affects product and process innovation. I combine plausibly exogenous variation in foreign competition induced by large tariff cuts with a difference‐in‐differences strategy and find that firms increase their product patenting in response to increased foreign competition, but, on average, foreign
Colin Davison
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The role of subnational actors in North America during the NAFTA renegotiation
This article analyzes the economic relations of subnational states in the United States with Mexico and Canada during the period of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) but also during the negotiation and ratification of the United States ...
Roberto Zepeda, Jorge Virchez
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Demographic Dynamics and International Trade: Stylized Facts and Theoretical Insights
ABSTRACT Demographic change within a country has economic repercussions for other countries through international transactions. Ongoing shifts in population size and age structure across countries have important implications for international trade, operating through changes in market size, consumption preferences, and labor supply.
Kumuthini Sivathas
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Toward enacting a Zapatista feminist agenda somewhere in la Selva Lacondona: We are all Marias?
Women’s participation in the Zapatista Revolutionary Movement improved women’s potential for gender justice as outlined in the 1994 Declaration of Women’s Rights; however, Zapatismo has struggled to implement and sustain a clear indigenous feminist ...
Mary Louisa Cappelli
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NAFTA Chapter 11 Investor-State Cases: Lessons for the Central America Free Trade Agreement [PDF]
This report describes how Canadian cattle producers are using NAFTA to demand $300 million in compensation from U.S. taxpayer funds, claiming that the Canadian cattle import ban instituted after mad cow disease was found in Canada violates their NAFTA ...
Lori Wallach, Mary Bottari
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Historical Perspectives on Deglobalization's Drivers, Outcomes, and Managerial Responses
Abstract The deglobalization process experienced in the early 2020s is not without precedent. This Special Issue leverages business history as a lens to generate new insights and to uncover previously hidden complexities and nuances. Studying previous periods of deglobalization and their varying drivers, outcomes, and responses, the papers in this ...
Andrew Smith +3 more
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US immigration policies and citizenship on the screen
: Always a controversial issue, the US ‘immigration problem’ expresses anxieties over the nation’s changing ethnic demographics, leading to the creation of exclusionary boundaries that are manifested in media prejudices and immigration rhetoric ...
Esther Alvarez López
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