Who is afraid of capital mobility? On labor taxation and the level of public services in an open economy

This paper deals with the impact of international capital mobility on labor taxes and the size of the public sector. It employs a model of the labor market, where national trade unions arc able to set wages above the competitive level. In a closed economy, a higher labor tax raises wage demands of the unions and thus increases the distortion on the labor market. With perfect international capital mobility, competition between trade unions leads to full employment, irrespective of the labor tax rale. The distorting effect of the labor tax vanishes and governments arc able to increase the supplied quantity of public services to the first best level.Capital Mobility,Labor Taxation

Interim Report: Third Party Complaint Regarding Gildan Dortex, Dominican Republic

This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide.  Special emphasis is placed on labor rights, working conditions, labor market changes, and union organizing.FLA_Interim_Report_Gildan_Dortex.pdf: 318 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Labor Markets and Monetary Union; a Strategic Analysis

This paper analyzes the macroeconomic consequences of the establishment of a monetary union in the presence of unionized labor markets. It is shown that the effects of the formation of a monetary union depend on several labor market features, such as the degree of centralization of wage bargaining, labor unions' inflation aversion and the degree of substitutability between the labor of different unions. In particular, the switch from national monetary policies to a unified monetary policy usually affects both inflation and unemployment, even when all structural parameters of the economy and of unions' and policymakers' preferences remain the same. The benchmark case of a monetary union between identical countries suggests that the switch to a monetary union is likely to make labor unions more aggressive, increasing unemployment. Qualifications to this result are provided and their robustness is investigated under alternative structural assumptions, like crosscountry asymmetries, (preunion) ERM membership and wage leadership.

Labor-Management Bargaining, Labor Standards and International Rivalry

Using the labor union's bargaining power as an indication of government policy on labor standards issues, we analyze the competition between a domestic (North) firm and a foreign (South) firm, and their relationship with optimal labor standards (LS). First, we show that the optimal level of LS is higher when labor unions are employment-oriented than when they are not. Second, it is higher under free trade than under the optimal tariff system if labor unions are employment-oriented. Third, 'a race to the bottom' of LS occurs in the case of wage-oriented unions. Fourth, the North's imposing a tariff to force the Southern government to raise its LS is effective only if the Southern union is wage-oriented. In order to raise Southern LS, both countries may need some deeper form of economic integration, if the North does not want to abandon its free trade system.Labor Standards, Race to the Bottom, Tariff, Economic Integration, Labor Union

Tracking Chart 2010 Olivet International, China

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Tracking Chart 2006 Zephyr, China 130015488E

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Foreign Labor Trends: Switzerland

Foreign Labor Trendsswitzerland_2003.pdf: 2358 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Concept One Accessories – Tracking Report – China Factory Code: 2500151082I; September 6 – 8, 2010

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Tracking Chart 2007 47 Brand, China 390015513E

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Tracking Report 2008 AT Cross, China 470015986G

This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide. Special emphasis is placed on labor rights, working conditions, labor market changes, and union organizing.FLA_2008_ATCross_TR_China_470015986G.pdf: 13 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020