Worker Influence on Capital Account Policy: Inflow Liberalization and Outflow Restrictions
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DOI: 10.1080/03050629.2017.1344125
Abstract: ABSTRACT How do workers impact openness to international investment flows? This article distinguishes between two types of openness: openness to inflows and openness to outflows of investment. Workers benefit from inflow openness due to increases… read more here.
Keywords: worker influence; openness; investment; labor rights ... See more keywords
Labor Rights, Venture Capital, and Firm Performance
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DOI: 10.1111/fima.12137
Abstract: We investigate the role of labor unions in the performance of venture capital (VC)-backed firms. Using a large sample of initial public offering firms from 1983 to 2013, we find that VC-backed firms in highly… read more here.
Keywords: venture capital; labor rights; labor; performance ... See more keywords
Explaining Employer Responses to Transnational Labor Activism: Indonesia and Cambodia Compared
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DOI: 10.1177/0010414017710266
Abstract: Attempts to expand labor rights are rarely met with automatic acceptance by employers who benefitted from past practices. Workers, thus, sometimes engage in transnational activism in an attempt to secure labor rights on the local… read more here.
Keywords: labor; employer; indonesia cambodia; labor rights ... See more keywords
Resource Wealth: A “Curse” for Labor Rights?
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DOI: 10.1177/00104140231178732
Abstract: Though a great deal of research has examined the economic and political consequences of natural resource wealth, its implications for labor remain empirically under-examined. In this article, we contend that resource abundance undermines labor rights… read more here.
Keywords: resource wealth; wealth curse; labor; labor rights ... See more keywords
Expanding worker voice and labor rights in global supply chains: Standard setting, verification, and traceability
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DOI: 10.1177/14680181221094953
Abstract: Migrant workers are the backbone of many global supply chains, performing some of the hardest tasks with few protections, low pay, and at high risk for abuse, including being lured into debt bondage (International Business… read more here.
Keywords: labor; labor rights; global supply; standard setting ... See more keywords