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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"race to the bottom"”.
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Race to the Bottom? : A Critical Analysis of Canada's Modern Slavery in Supply Chain Legislation
This study critically examines the Government of Canada's conceptualization of transnational corporate accountability and exploitative labour in its legislative response to modern slavery in global supply chains. With a primary focus on the government's recently proposed Bill S-216: Modern Slavery …
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Race to the bottom or move to the middle? Globalization and welfare transformation in the developing world
… social protection regimes differently across the developing world? The existing literature predicts a causal relationship between globalization and larger welfare states under the assumption that larger welfare state sustains the openness against a “globalization backlash” (Rodrik 1997, 1998). …
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Race to the Bottom or Move to the Middle? Globalization and Welfare Regime Transformation in the Developing World
My findings demonstrate that the variations of social welfare systems in the developing world are rooted in the conflicting dynamics of industrialization and globalization. Industrialization in the developing world has an expansionary effect on welfare expenditures as it entails risks that fuel the …
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Regulatory competition and the politics of environmental enforcement
… economic competition result in states weakening their environmental regulation? Scholars have long been interested in this question. Of particular concern, is whether this type of behavior leads to a "race to the bottom" in U.S. state environmental regulatory behavior. Although there is a mature …
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Globalization and standards : the liberalization of trade and the potential for a regulatory race to the top
Globalization is changing the way in which the world is organized. The world trade regime is increasingly the dominant mode of organizing international relations. Within this context of globalization and liberalization of trade, empirical examples of a race to the bottom co-exist with examples of a …
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Why the garden club couldn't save Youngstown : social embeddedness and the transformation of the rust belt
In 1975, Allentown, Pennsylvania and Youngstown, Ohio could be considered of a piece. Both were mid-sized cities in which nearly 35% of the local work force was employed in manufacturing. By 1983, both had taken on the moniker of the "rust belt"; dual processes of deindustrialization and hollowing …
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The successful diffusion of gender-affirming care bans in the U.S.: how partisanship functions as a mechanism of policy diffusion
Since 2015, the diffusion of anti-trans policies among the states has targeted the ability of transgender Americans to participate in athletics, change identification documents, use public facilities - such as bathrooms or locker rooms, and obtain gender affirming healthcare. The banning of gender …
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Organised labour and migration in the global age: a comparative analysis of trade union responses to migrant labour in Austria, Germany, Ireland and the UK
Trade unions face multiple challenges at the beginning of the twenty-first century, including increased inward migration. The accession of eight countries from Central and Eastern Europe to the EU in 2004 in particular has created a new dynamic of labour migration in Europe, sometimes raising …
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Essays on State Business Tax Incentives and Policy Diffusion
States' use of tax incentives to lure business investment has drawn a lot of attention from policymakers, the public, and academics. Despite mixed assessments of their efficacy in creating net increases in jobs and investment, business tax incentives continue to be highly popular among state …
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In the Driver's Seat: Living and Working as a Trucker
<p>This project examines the work and personal lives of truck drivers. Using data from fieldwork at a Midwestern trucking company, along with interviews with 38 drivers, dispatchers, company management and spouses and partners of drivers, I explore the questions: Thirty years out from deregulation, …
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Workforce Transition Systems and Job Quality in Times of Occupational Structural Change: the Case of Displaced Manufacturing Workers in 21st Century Germany and the United States.
Deepening deindustrialisation owing to increased globalisation and technological change has destroyed millions of manufacturing jobs in advanced capitalist economies. Despite the sizeable impacts of these shifts, we know little about the specific 21st century job quality trajectories of a ‘most …
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THE DECLINE OF COAL? THE HOLCOMB POWER PLANT INCIDENT, THE AMERICAN STATES, AND ENERGY POLITICS
Over the last decade, major economic, political, and regulatory changes have occurred in the U.S. that influenced the utilization of coal. The resource once held a dominant role in the energy market at the national and subnational level, and was capable of adapting to the federal and state air …
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International Labour Law as a Global Public Good: Enhancing Labour Regulation in an Era of Globalisation
This research draws on institutional-economic theory, evolutionary and epistemic game theory and systems theory, to better understand the function of international labour law, and to show how it can be improved. Applying this economic-systemic perspective, the study develops the argument that …
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DIGITAL LABOUR RELATIONS IN THE GIG ECONOMY: PLATFORM-TO-CONSUMER FOOD DELIVERY SERVICES IN GLOBAL NORTH AND GLOBAL SOUTH
The platform business model has been expanding exponentially over time reshaping capitalism as well as work and labour relations within it. In less than a decade, digital platforms have grown from a niche market to engulf different industries and services across the globe, in developed and …
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Competing for Foreign Direct Investment Through Investment in Public Infrastructure
In the first essay we examine optimal investment in public infrastructure when used to attract foreign direct investment (FDI). We model a monopolistic multinational firm that wants to establish its production plant in one of two prospective host countries with segmented markets, hence there is no …
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Principal Moral Hazard, Environmental Regulatory Biases, and Strategic Interaction among Chinese Local Governments
Principal moral hazard is one of the major concerns that generates undesired and inefficient governance outcomes. Although the principal moral hazard theory is very well-established, little empirical evidence has been provided on how principal moral hazard is operating in practice and what …
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Certification for biofuel: a means to sustainable development?
In recent decades, many countries, including the U.S., have adopted policies to promote greater use of biofuel, with the hope that biofuel can be used to meet the sustainability goal of reducing carbon emission associated with conventional fossil fuel. However, biofuel production, if not …
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Organisationsstrukturen und Machtbeziehungen im marokkanischen Gebirgstourismus
… folgt Marokko über die Förderung des Trekkingtourismus im Atlasgebirge dem allgemeinen Trend hin zu alternativen Reiseformen. Doch trotz der insgesamt steigenden wirtschaftlichen Bedeutung von alternativen Tourismusformen, weis man noch sehr wenig darüber, wie das Zusammenspiel der daran …