Internal Labor Markets - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 23

adherence to the global labor standards embodied in codes of conduct imposed by multinational buyers. We find that suppliers are more likely to adhere when they are embedded in states that participate actively in the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2008
News

India is more Transparent

China, can I believe the financial information in a company’s annual report? “Not really, I say. The annual report does not serve the purpose it does in market economies, that is, to communicate reliable information. “What about analysts’... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Sep 2007
News

Ali Allawi

dumped into Iraq after the overthrow of the regime. It was the main market for cars coming from the Gulf area. It was a very, very scruffy and dirty town. As we moved up into Iraq proper, we followed the main north-south Euphrates... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs

01 Dec 2017
News

2017 in Manufacturing: The Supply Chain Goes High Tech

market differentiation are now even more important than they have been historically. These truths apply across the manufacturing sector, but general industrial equipment and electronics are two areas where these forces are particularly... View Details

Keywords: Jerry Jasinowski (AMP 97, 1985), former president and CEO, National Association of Manufacturers

11 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ’Entrepreneurship and Multinationals’

markets. They have shown that the second half of the nineteenth century witnessed a deeper globalization than ever seen previously using that criterion. By 1914 world capital, commodity and labor markets... View Details

Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones

22 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China

trip, recently talked to Professor Kerr about his research and his observations in China. Mike Roberts: Tell us about your impressions of China. Bill Kerr: My central observation from our trip is that China is at a tipping point for entrepreneurship on an View Details

Keywords: Re: William R. Kerr; Technology; Computer

01 Jun 2008
News

Anjali Raina to Lead India Research Center

located in regions that play a vital role in the world economy, including Asia- Pacific, Europe, Japan, Latin America, and California’s Silicon Valley. Raina will focus on building and maintaining relationships with senior business leaders in the region to facilitate... View Details

Keywords: research; world economy; Management

Student-Profile

Rohan Kekre

and corporate finance (particularly financial intermediation). I’m currently engaged in research on both fronts: the macroeconomic consequences of heterogeneity in labor market institutions across the... View Details

10 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Governance in India and Around the Globe

not actual practices. This introduction and conclusion from a recent working paper, "Product and Labor Markets Globalization and Convergence of Corporate Governance: Evidence from Infosys and the Indian... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna & Krishna Palepu; Technology

April 2011
Course Overview Note

The Energy Business and Geopolitics: Overview

By: Noel Maurer

Keywords: Energy; Globalized Markets and Industries; International Relations; Energy Industry

Citation

22 Apr 2015
Op-Ed

Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths

firms-partly thanks to changes in labor regulations that made labor markets more flexible. Reforms were also effective at cutting red tape that prevented entrepreneurs from... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

01 Jun 2006
News

India Arrives

world’s fastest-growing free market democracy” read posters and banners all around the Swiss resort, while Indian success stories such as Infosys Technologies were the talk of movers and shakers at swank soirees. The spotlight continued... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

16 Jun 2015
Working Paper Summaries

Paying Up for Fair Pay: Consumers Prefer Firms with Lower CEO-to-Worker Pay Ratios

Keywords: by Bhavya Mohan, Michael I. Norton & Rohit Deshpandé

April 2018
Article

Consumers Avoid Buying from Firms with Higher CEO-to-Worker Pay Ratios

By: Bhavya Mohan, Tobias Schlager, Rohit Deshpandé and Michael I. Norton

We document a novel driver of consumer behavior: pay ratio disclosure. Swiss corporation performance data gathered during a legally mandated pay ratio referendum reveals that salient high pay ratios are associated with decreased firm sales (Pilot Study). An... View Details

Keywords: Pay Ratio; Wage Fairness; Purchase Intention; Customers; Wages; Fairness; Consumer Behavior

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06 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

immigrants might increase labor market competition for native-born workers, lowering their wages and their employment prospects. Cultural. Immigration is associated with the influx of people with different... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Tabellini

30 Sep 2010
News

Diversifying the Nigerian Economy

Keywords: Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Jun 2004
News

Hot Tip

and modernizing its capital markets. Prospects are intriguing: Last year, of Africa’s twenty stock markets, the indexes of Kenya and Uganda performed in the top ten globally, with Ghana’s stock market finishing number one in the world... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

15 Sep 2015
First Look

September 15, 2015

supervisory responsibility if employed, work more hours, and earn marginally higher wages than women whose mothers stayed home full-time. The effects on labor market outcomes are non-significant for men.... View Details