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Minimum Wage and Job Mobility in Peru
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUM, 2014)
We study the effects of the minimum wage over employment and income in Peru by considering a monthly database that captures seven minimum wage changes registered between 2002 and 2011. We estimate that about 1 million ...
Unionized Oligopoly and Outsourcing
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUM, 2009)
The interaction between labor unions and international competition has received a lot of attention. In the first decade of the 21st century, increasing number of companies in unionized oligopolistic industries has shifted ...
Towards Sustainable Offshore Outsourcing: A Case Study of Quebec Manufacturing Firms Outsourcing to China
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUM, 2010)
The offshore-outsourcing choice is viewed as a source of factory closures and job losses in many developed countries including Canada. The current exploratory paper using qualitative case study methods presents experiences ...
Labor Productivity in Peru: 1997-2007
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUM, 2012)
The purpose of this paper was to decompose the changes in labor productivity of the Peruvian economy into the between- and within-sector effects using 39 sectors in terms of production structure for the period 1997-2007. ...
Internationalization of Firms’ Activities and Company Union Wage Strategies
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUM, 2014)
Using a two-country duopoly model with homogeneous goods, firms’ decisions with respect to international activities (trade vs. foreign direct investment - FDI) in the presence of company-wide unions are analyzed. If firms ...