Regional Trade Agreements and Domestic Labour Market Regulation

Häberli, Christian; Jansen, Marion; Monteiro, José-Antonio

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2162023

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“…More recently, some research (e.g. the IJHRM special issue on The state, public policy and the renewal of HRM edited by Häberli, Jansen, & Monteiro, 2012;Kretsos & Martínez Lucio, 2013;Ollier-Malaterre, McNamara, Matz-Costa, PittCatsouphes, & Valcour, 2013;Williams, Heery, & Abbott, 2011) has engaged with this complexity, raising the importance of exploring the role of regulation at different levels: from attention to domestic labour markets, such as the context of devolved regimes, to the organisational level through attention to the renewal of HRM. These discussions highlight the importance of understanding not only the transformations in dynamics and processes of work and employment, but also the nature of and the role played by social actors, and ultimately the implications of these changes on the way work settings operate and are regulated.…”

Section: The Regulation Of Work and Employment And I/chrmmentioning

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Regulation of work and employment: advances, tensions and future directions in research in international and comparative HRM

Rodríguez

Johnstone

Procter

2017

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

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a alliance manchester Business school, university of manchester, manchester, uK; b newcastle university Business school, newcastle upon Tyne, uK ABSTRACT Changes to dynamics work and employment have resulted in calls for more sustainable management, procedural control, institutional governance, and political accountability. Against this background, there is renewed attention to regulation, its terms, nature and quality, and its role to shape the employment relationship. An important concern for international and comparative human resource management (I/CHRM) is understanding the role of regulation in interacting with these changes and how this varies across within and between countries. Regulation sits at the centre of competing economic and social demands, which are seen as both complementary and irreconcilable, and its complexity needs to be theorized and empirically mapped. The article discusses key themes related to changes to dynamics, processes and structures, and tensions that concern the fields of I/CHRM and its relationship with the regulation of work and employment. The article calls for more comprehensive insight into the theoretical links between regulation and I/CHRM, and more empirical evidence of their interplay across contexts. It suggests that engaging with the paradoxes and ambiguities of different competing agendas of regulation of work and employment, and exploring these in relation to different social actors within and across geographies is a significant step in advancing research in this area.

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Section: The Regulation Of Work and Employment And I/chrmmentioning

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Regulation of work and employment: advances, tensions and future directions in research in international and comparative HRM

Rodríguez

Johnstone

Procter

2017

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

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“…I employ the following econometric specification, inspired by Häberli et al (2012) and also distinguishing RTAs with labor clauses from those without labor clauses: . 47 The variable is also expressed as the 45 This specification differs from the one employed in Häberli et al (2012) that includes dummies indicating the region and income group of each country. The current research includes individual country dummies considering the nature of the data for the labor condition variables L it sourced from the ILO statistics.…”

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“…The author therefore considers that within-country comparisons using an individual country fixed-effect approach is suitable to the estimation in the current research. On the other hand, Häberli et al (2012) specification. These variables, inspired by Häberli et al (2012), are defined as follows: for all the countries and years, however, the sample valid for the empirical analysis does not cover all of these countries and years (i.e., the sample is an unbalanced panel), and observations valid for each regression are further limited.…”

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Regional Trade Agreements with Labor Clauses: Effects on Labor Standards and Trade

Kamata¹

2014

SSRN Journal

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An increasing number of regional trade agreements (RTAs) include "labor clauses" that require or urge the signatory countries to commit to maintaining a certain level of labor standards. This paper, starting by classifying more than 200 currently effective RTAs depending on the nature and extent of labor provisions, empirically analyzes the effect of a RTA with labor clauses on domestic labor conditions in the signatory countries as well as the effect on trade growth between the countries, using data for up to 220 countries for the years 1995 through 2012.The study finds that (i) intensive trade with the partner(s) of a labor-clause-inclusive RTA may have a positive impact on labor earnings that concentrate on middle-income countries; but also that (ii) labor clauses may reduce the trade-promoting effect of the RTA for the middle-income countries, especially when the RTA partner is a high-income country. These results offer a policy implication that the inclusion of labor clauses in a trade agreement should involve non-negligible costs for possible benefits that may not be expected for every country.

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“…A recent ILO study (Häberli et al, 2012) has shown empirical evidence that regional integration among industrialized countries tends to undermine the application of ILO core labor standards. If these findings are considered as relevant in the context of TTIP the European Commission and governments of EU countries and the US -possibly also of Canada and Mexico -should adopt rules that make sure that ILO labor standards are not undermined.…”

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Transatlantic trade and investment partnership: sectoral and macroeconomic perspectives for Germany, the EU and the US

Welfens

Irawan

2014

Int Econ Econ Policy

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Regional Trade Agreements and Domestic Labour Market Regulation

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Regulation of work and employment: advances, tensions and future directions in research in international and comparative HRM

Regulation of work and employment: advances, tensions and future directions in research in international and comparative HRM

Regional Trade Agreements with Labor Clauses: Effects on Labor Standards and Trade

Transatlantic trade and investment partnership: sectoral and macroeconomic perspectives for Germany, the EU and the US

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