We analyse the behaviour of a multi-sector small open economy with involuntary unemployment due to fair wages. The equilibrium level of employment depends in an intuitively appealing way on the sectoral structure of the economy. It is shown that induced changes in employment are a driving force behind many of the comparative static results. Fair wage variants of the Heckscher-Ohlin and the Rica...

Positive organizational scholarship (POS) is a humanistic approach to the study of organizations, emphasizing the importance of subjectivity, intersubjectivity, and meaning at work (Cameron, Dutton, & Quinn, 2003 ). Relational coordination theory contributes to POS by o" ering a theory of coordination that makes visible the relational process underlying the technical process, arguing that coord...

This paper develops and evaluates a novel mechanism through which imports of unskilled intermediates (offshoring) increase wages of both skilled and unskilled workers by inducing skill-biased technology adoption and innovation in developed countries. Data for a panel of manufacturing industries in the United States over 1974-2005, strongly support the technology channel with a doubling of offsh...

Leslie H. Sherlin, Martijn Arns, Joel Lubar, Hartmut Heinrich, Cynthia Kerson, Ute Strehl, M. Barry Sterman Neurotopia, Inc., Los Angeles, California, USA Nova Tech EEG, Inc., Mesa, Arizona, USA Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine, Tempe, Arizona, USA Research Institute Brainclinics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Department of Experimental Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherl...