Working by Design: New Ideas to Empower U.S. and European Workers in TTIP
The 21st century has not been the best of times for U.S. and European workers. They have been buffeted by job losses, underemployment, and economic insecurity.
Working Papers
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Can Transparency in Supply Chains Advance Labor Rights? Mapping of Existing Efforts
Today, information is currency; it facilitates productivity, exchange, technology and trade. Information is also the building block of the digital economy
Can Transparency in Supply Chains Advance Labor Rights? Mapping of Existing Efforts
Supply chain initiatives wed government mandates delineating the “right to know” with corporate governance and voluntary corporate social
Online Job Search and Migration Intentions Across EU Member States
Most studies of migration focus on realized migration. In this study we instead focus on revealed preference of job seekers actively searching for a job
Costly Screening, Self-Selection, Fraud, and the Organization of Credit Markets
This paper analyzes a credit market that includes a costly, universal and imperfect screening technology with both type I and type II errors and borrower
This chapter examines two types of fragility, environmental and governmental, and their interactions. Increasing environmental fragility, resulting from both
Climate Preferences, Obesity, and Unobserved Heretogeneity in Cities
Some sources of heterogeneity among cities, i.e. age, gender, race, income, and education, have been the object of substantial inquiry. The reasons are obvious...
Learning, Prices, and Firm Dynamics
Using data from the Portuguese manufacturing sector, we document new facts about the joint evolution of rm performance and prices in international markets,
Market Ethics With Trade in an Edgeworth Box
A pure exchange model in an Edgeworth box diagram is used to highlight the basic system of market ethics that is implicitly presumed in all neoclassical
Surge Pricing and Price Gouging: Public Misunderstanding as a Market Imperfection
This paper evaluates the economic and ethical effects of sudden excess demand for goods or services. The normal market response of “surge prices”.....