Good Bulbs, Bad Jobs: Workers and Conditions Behind Your New Compact Fluorescent [PDF]
, 2008 The study highlights labor violations at a Xiamen Topstar Lighting Co. Ltd. factory, a joint venture in which GE has a stake. The report recommends that GE follow its own policies and ensure that its bulbs are made in a way that does not compromise the ...
Policy Matters Ohio
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From the old path of shipbuilding onto the new path of offshore wind energy? The case of northern Germany [PDF]
Wind energy-related employment has been surging recently in Germany: it rose from 9,200 in 1997 to 90,000 in 2007 and is estimated to be 112,000 in 2020. The industry particularly emerged in coastal, northern Germany.
Claudia Klaerding +4 more
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Offshoring (or Offshore Outsourcing) and Job Loss Among U.S. Workers [PDF]
, 2012 [Excerpt] Offshoring, also known as offshore outsourcing, is the term that came into use more than a decade ago to describe a practice among companies located in the United States of contracting with businesses beyond U.S.
Levine, Linda
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Employment, Job Turnover and the Trade in Producer Services: Firm-level Evidence [PDF]
We provide the first firm-level evidence of the impact of the trade in producer services (“offshoring”) on the labour market. Using a new dataset which measures trade in services at the firm-level, we find no evidence that importing intermediate services
Alex Hijzen +3 more
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Competition and the Location of Overseas Assembly [PDF]
How does international competition affect overseas outsourcing? While it is commonly believed that international competition enables firms to desert high cost countries in favor of low wage locations, the frequency of such responses may be reduced if the
Deborah Swenson
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Growing Pennsylvania's High-Tech Economy: Choosing Effective Investments [PDF]
, 2010 Compares Pennsylvania's high-tech economic development incentives, programs, and taxes with those of six competitor states. Includes case studies, program summaries, and analyses using a proprietary model and database.
Alan Peters +8 more
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(Dis)Assembling Rights of Women Workers Along the Global Assembly Line: Human Rights and the Garment Industry Symposium: Political Lawyering: Conversations on Progressive Social Change [PDF]
, 1996 Some observers would like to explain away sweatshops as immigrants exploiting other immigrants, as cultural, or as the importation of a form of exploitation that normally does not happen here but occurs elsewhere, in the Third World.
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Chapter 1 Economic Integration and Industry Location: Theories, Empirical Results, and Implications for CLMV [PDF]
Trade affects the internal location of industry in two ways: it induces firms to specialize and it expands the set of markets that firms serve. If there are industry-specific external economies, firms in related industries will spatially agglomerate ...
Kuroiwa, Ikuo
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Political economy of the petroleum sector in Nigeria [PDF]
The relatively slow pace of Nigeria's development has often been attributed to the phenomenon of the resource curse whereby the nature of the state as a"rentier"dilutes accountability for development and political actors are able to manipulate ...
Gboyega, Alex +3 more
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Crisis and protection in the automotive industry : a global value chain perspective [PDF]
In this paper the authors apply global value chain (GVC) analysis to recent trends in the global automotive industry, with special attention paid to government interventions triggered by the recent economic crisis. The authors first highlight some of the
Sturgeon, Timothy J. +1 more
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