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  Garment workers in Asia deserve a living wageAug 2010
The Asia Floor Wage Alliance calls upon retailers and brand-named companies to immediately start dialogue with labour organisations in Asian countries to address poverty wage. The current labour unrest in countries such as Cambodia and Bangladesh underlines the necessity to achieve a regional minimum living wage...'...
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  Can We Define a Global Living Wage? The Example of Mexico-Nov 2004
As has been well documented, commodity production has become increasingly segmented and geographically dispersed over the past generation. This ‘new international division of labor'...
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  Global Apparel Production and Sweatshop Labor: Can Raising Retail Prices Finance Living Wages?April 2002
  This paper provides some empirical evidence on issues raised by the global antisweatshop movement. We first consider the relationship between wage and employment growth, ...
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  The Impact of Substantial Labor Cost Increases on Apparel Retail Prices-November 2005

  This document provides background information concerning the likely impact of substantial labor cost increases, such as those that would result from the implementation of USAS's proposed Designated Supplier Program, ...
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  Defining and Measuring a Global Living Wage: Theoretical and Conceptual Issues-April 2002

  While there are many questions still to be answered about the degree to which global integration has fundamentally changed the U.S. economy, ...
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  Sample Living Wage Estimates: Indonesia and El Salvador

 The following data is intended to demonstrate how a university's code of conduct monitoring agent, in consultation with local technical experts and worker rights advocates,...
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  Evaluating Living Wage Laws in the United States: Good Intentions and Economic Reality in Conflict?2003

 “In Economics, “other things” are so often not equal that greater proportionate stress ought to be laid on the necessity of examining each case to see whether the weights are important or not."   -- Alfred Marshall letter to Bowley, February 21, 1901, Vol 2, of Collected ...
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  Measuring the Impact of Living Wage Laws: A Critical Appraisal of David Neumark's How Living Wage Laws Affect Low-Wage Workers and Low-Income Families 2002
 Since 1994 over eighty municipal governments in the United States have adopted socalled “living wage” ordinances. Most of the existing research ...
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 Pricing in the Global Garment Industry 2002
 If a pair of Nike sport shoes retails for approximately $100 and the worker who puts the shoe together earns about $1 out of that $100, why can’t the money be distributed more equitably
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