Environmental standards and labor productivity: Understanding the mechanisms that sustain sustainability

Environmental standards and labor productivity: Understanding the mechanisms that sustain sustainability

In the last decade, a rising number of firms have adopted voluntary international environmental management and product standards, such as the international ISO 14001 management standard or organic certification. Although emerging research analyzes the impact of these standards on environmental and financial performance, there is to our knowledge no empirical research on how they affect the prod...

Environmental Standards and Labor Productivity

In the last decade, a rising number of firms have adopted international environmental management and product standards such as the international ISO 14001 management standard or organic certification. While emerging research analyzes the impact of these practices on environmental performance or financial performance, there is, to our knowledge no empirical research on the effect of these standa...

Mechanisms That Enhance Sustainability of p53 Pulses

The tumor suppressor p53 protein shows various dynamic responses depending on the types and extent of cellular stresses. In particular, in response to DNA damage induced by γ-irradiation, cells generate a series of p53 pulses. Recent research has shown the importance of sustaining repeated p53 pulses for recovery from DNA damage. However, far too little attention has been paid to understanding ...

Capital, Labor, and Productivity

IN A PREVIOUS PAPER I explored two suggestions about how to understand time-series and cross-country variations in measured total factor productivity growth: increases in the labor force might slow technological change and increases in capital might speed it up. 1 Neither suggestion was new. The conjecture about the effect of labor dates back, at least, to attempts to explain the divergence in ...

Trade AND Labor Standards