Essays about: "trade union"

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  1. 16. Beyond Distance: Understanding the Trade Disadvantage of the Sub-Saharan African Landlocked Countries

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Mai Ahrne Bojang; [2023]
    Keywords : Landlocked; Gravity model; Sub-Saharan Africa; European Union; International trade; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This paper analyses the magnitude of exports of the landlocked countries of Sub-Saharan Africa to the European Union and attempts to find an explanation for the low trade flows of the region. Understanding the cause of the limited trade of landlocked countries in the region is important to enable successful implementation of trade enhancing policies and reforms. READ MORE

  3. 17. Complicity and Conflict Minerals: How did and could the European Union respond to its complicity in third countries in the case of the Conflict Minerals Regulation?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Peg Magnusson; [2023]
    Keywords : complicity; territorial extension; due diligence; conflict minerals; EU regulatory power; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : For many years, the European Union has been aware that its trade with so-called “conflict minerals” has indirectly contributed to conflict and human rights abuses in third countries. In 2014, as a response to this contribution, the European Commission proposed a regulation aiming to control the products containing the minerals that enter the internal market. READ MORE

  4. 18. Destruction or Protection? A discursive institutionalist study of the ideas behind the different responses to the Minimum wage directive in Sweden and Finland

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Niklas Hjelm; [2023]
    Keywords : Sweden; Finland; Minimum wage directive; Discursive institutionalism; ideas; discourse; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This study seeks to understand and explain why Sweden and Finland voted differently in the Council of the European Union on the proposal of a minimum wage directive. The two countries share a labor market system, based in collective bargaining and important roles for trade unions and employer organizations, without a legally set minimum wage. READ MORE

  5. 19. A Study of the Impacts of Brexit on Cross-border Trade Between the UK regions and Ireland

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Sanna Natéus; [2023]
    Keywords : Brexit; Cross-border trade; United Kingdom; Republic of Ireland; Northern Ireland Protocol; Economic policy uncertainty; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : From the Brexit Referendum in 2016, up until the Brexit transition period in 2020 and onwards, the regions of the United Kingdom underwent several renegotiations within trade agreements associated with the Brexit process and the consequent withdrawal from the European Union. This caused increasing levels of economic policy uncertainty within the United Kingdom, which accordingly acted as a spillover effect on the economy of the Republic of Ireland, similarly increasing its economic policy uncertainty levels. READ MORE

  6. 20. Digital Market Acts and the Future of European Union's Digital Sovereignty Policy : An Assessment of Structural Power, and Policy Implications for the Future

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Putri Løgager; [2023]
    Keywords : Digital Market Acts; Digital Sovereignty; European Digital Policy; Structural Power; the European Union; Neoliberalism;

    Abstract : The adoption of the Digital Market Acts (DMA) marked a significant development in the direction of the European Union’s stronger approach to regulating its digital economy. This thesis sought to evaluate the European Union's structural power in the digital economy as well as the DMA’s potential impact on the future of the EU’s digital sovereignty policy. READ MORE