Trade Exposure and the Decline in Collective Bargaining: Evidence From Germany
Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We analyze how rising trade exposure from China and Eastern Europe affected collective bargaining coverage in German plants from 1996 to 2008. Using cross‐industry variation in trade exposure and instrumenting with trade flows from other high‐income countries, we find that higher import exposure increased the likelihood that plants exited ...
Daniel Baumgarten, Sybille Lehwald
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FBG-Based Multi-Parameter Sensor for Harsh Transformer Conditions: Decoupling Packaging for Simultaneous Temperature, Pressure, and Moisture Measurement. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel)Wang D, Ma S, Jin F, Wang R.
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Accelerating Platform User Growth: Pinduoduo's Multi‐Motivational Selfish Referral Strategy
Information Systems Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Referral strategies, whereby existing platform users recruit new users and thereby strengthen same‐side network effects, have long been central to digital platforms' efforts to grow the installed user base. Current referral strategies often require the referee to complete a transaction as a prerequisite for the referrer to receive the reward ...
Runyu Shi +2 more
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An intelligent life prediction approach employing machine learning models for the power transformers. [PDF]
Sci RepNezami MM +8 more
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Global Factors in Noncore Bank Funding and Exchange Rate Flexibility
Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, EarlyView.Abstract We show that fluctuations in the ratio of noncore to core funding in the banking systems of advanced economies are largely driven by three global factors of both real and financial natures, with country‐specific factors playing only a minor role. Exchange rate flexibility helps insulate the noncore to core ratio from such global factors.
LUÍS A.V. CATÃO +2 more
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The Effects of K-BNNS Nanoparticles on PD Characteristics of Composite Aramid Paper. [PDF]
Nanomaterials (Basel)Chen YH +5 more
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Standards as Authority: Self‐Legitimation in the European Union's Global Forest Governance
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates how the EU's introduction of binding sustainability standards through the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) constitutes an authoritative claim and how this claim is legitimized. Using qualitative content analysis, the paper examines three interconnected self‐legitimation strategies: (1) framing standards as optimal ...
Julia Drubel
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Composites from Recycled Polyolefin and Waste Plant Biomass with Potential Uses in Electrical Insulation Applications. [PDF]
Materials (Basel)Aradoaei M +5 more
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Political Naturalisation: Conscripting Transit Citizens in the United Arab Emirates
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Since its formation, the United Arab Emirates has sought to construct a cohesive sense of national identity among its citizens, centred on a system of material and legal privileges granted exclusively to Emirati nationals. A pillar of its nation‐building project was the strict exclusion of foreigners from citizenship and the upholding of a ...
Mira Al Hussein
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A Review and Research Proposal on Pioneering Sustainable Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with Kenaf Fibre Biocomposites for Structural and Electronic Integration. [PDF]
Materials (Basel)Balakrishnan TS +6 more
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