The skeptics of globalization argue that increased trade openness and foreign direct investment induce developing countries to keep labor costs low, for example, by letting children work. This paper argues that there are good theoretical reasons why globalization might actually have the opposite effect. This is tested with various measures...
This paper addresses a key issue in debates regarding economic globalization: to what extent does the internationalization of production, via foreign direct investment, lead to increased abuses of workers in developing countries? Using a new dataset on collective labor rights violations, the relationship between foreign direct investment and labor rights...
This template helps you analyze the annual cost of labor by comparing labor costs to standard labor. Standard labor is an expected labor cost based on estimated capacities of output costed at an estimated hourly rate plus benefits. This type of analysis is critical to keeping costs under control.
There is a wide disparity of views on issues of international labor standards. Labor and social activists are concerned about the increased imports from countries in which labor standards are ostensibly not enforced at a sufficiently high level. This paper explores these different views and the available options for addressing...
During the 1990s Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic have experienced rapid increases in wage inequality between skilled and unskilled workers and received the largest FDI Foreign Direct Investment inflow in Central and Eastern Europe. This paper analyzes whether FDI has contributed to the raise in earning inequality via a...
The multinationalization of production is perhaps the most striking and distinguishing characteristic of the process of globalization over the last two decades. The share of cross-border capital flows accounted for by the Foreign Direct Investment FDI of multinationals has been rising in last few years. This paper examines the relationship...
Researching supplier cost structures can be like putting together a jigsaw puzzle with no edge pieces and no picture. Each industry has a basic structure of costs for raw materials, electricity, direct labor, indirect,labor, inbound freight, Researching...
Pending congressional legislation that could affect FedEx Corp. labor relations would make it easier for unions to organize company employees and would direct the Internal Revenue Service and Labor Department to look more closely at contractor relationshiPending congressional legislation that could affect FedEx Corp. labor relations would make it easier...
There is a large literature on the determinants of foreign direct investment. In last few years, China emerges as the largest recipient of foreign direct investment. Is China taking direct investment away from other Asian economies? Theoretically, a growing China can add to other countries' direct investment by creating more...
This template allows you to determine a price for services. It works by applying an overhead indirect cost rate to the direct labor costs wages rate plus fringe benefits incurred on a particular job. To use the template you need to make two major forecasts: the total overhead cost of...
What action should be taken by international community with regard to labor standards, how should this action be organized, and by what means should it be enforced? The purpose of this paper is to provide answers to these three questions. Taking the perspective of economic theory, the paper describes here...
This paper studies the role of population aging for Foreign Direct Investment FDI and the strategic taxation of capital. Importantly, this theoretical model suggests that the labor market implications of aging differ from the financial market aspects. While population aging may be associated with a lower capital stock in the...
M2 PRESSWIRE-11 February 1999-AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT: Labor condemns ABC to digital backwater C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:110299 'Labor cannot be allowed to condemn the ABC to a digital backwater. Labor's knee-jerk ranting about the ABC is a direct attack on its future...
Warehousing and distribution are suddenly in the spotlight as critical elements of the direct commerce formula. Responsibility for distribution requires proactive and performance-oriented managers. However, in today's competitive operating environment, one needs to be both an alligator wrestler and a sharp-witted escape artist. These days, a distribution center manager needs...
FDI Foreign Direct Investment have dramatically impacted trade patterns of Central Europe and mode of integrating into global markets. Thanks to FDI, CEEC-10 have moved from inter-industry trade, characteristic of their central planning era, to intra-industry or intra-product trade, as network trade is often referred to. FDI have helped close...
The article is explains use the power of direct marketing to help your brand create a one-to-one relationship with your customers that creates loyalty, equity, and customers for life. Relationships are personal and direct, and direct marketing is all about one to one communications. Direct marketing is an information-driven, relational...
Originally appeared in Labor Law Newsletter - January 2002 The President has the opportunity to greatly influence the labor laws of our country through appointments to the National Labor Relations Board, which is responsible for enforcing the National Labor Relations Act. The President also designates the Chairman of...
The purpose of direct marketing is to produce customers who spend substantially more money with your business than you spent on the media space or time to acquire them. Before planning to acquire new customers via direct marketing and in order to get the highest possible return on your direct...
In a global context Foreign Direct Investment FDI and migration substitute one another in the matching process between workers and firms. However, as labor flows can lead to the formation of business networks, migration can actually facilitate FDI in the long-run. We first present a stylized model for a small...
Direct mail is the medium everyone loves to hate. As long as direct mailers don't abuse customers' privacy - a big "if" indeed in the laissez faire U.S.- the only really bad thing about direct mail is its environmental impact. And, blessedly, direct mail packages are lighter and thinner than...
