Keyword: arbitrage
Global Labor Market (9/5/2005)
Labor is increasingly globally sourced due to aging populations and lagging labor productivity in developed countries.
Keywords: arbitrage, contract workers, Filipino, immigration, Japan, labor costs, labor market, maids, Mexican, Mexico, nannies, nurses, offshoring, outsourcing, Philippines, productivity, Scotland, wages
One-Price Law – Making an Illegal Buck (2/27/2007)
Artificially-imposed price difference between markets can lead to flow of goods from short-supplied areas to well-supplied areas to equalize their effective prices.
Keywords: arbitrage, China, diesel, gasoline, Hong Kong, material flow, one-price law, price control, red oil, smuggling, subsidy, tax, Vietnam
Opportunities Pay (9/5/2005)
Job security of American workers whose opportunity costs are higher but whose labor productivity is no higher than foreign workers will be increasingly threatened by foreign competition.
Keywords: arbitrage, labor market, location-specific, offshoring, opportunity costs, outsourcing, wages
Too Global To Be National? (6/18/2010)
US multinationals fatten their bottom lines by arbitraging wages, taxes, and regulations across countries.
Keywords: arbitrage, capital, intellectual property, profit, regulation, taxes, wages