Strong and weak unionism in Mexican retail enterprises
Analyzing forty-one retail collective bargaining contracts from four Mexican cities, the A. findsconsiderable variation in wages and fringe benefits, benefits in excess of the legal minimum in 27 to 68 percent of cases (depending on the benefit
), and cases of sustained improvement in contractual benefits. Detailed consideration of the patterns suggests that these contracts are not uniformly protection contracts, indicating that there is strong as well as weak unionism in Mexican retail, including
among official unions, but that competitive conditions in Mexican retail constrain the possibilities for strong unionism.
The aim of the paper is to introduce the changes in the spatial structure of Hungary’s retail sector due to the crisis. First, the emergence and causes of the economic crisis and its impacts on retailing in Hungary and internationally are discussed
based on the multidisciplinary review of the Hungarian and international literature. This is followed by a short summary of economic and retail trends in the Visegrad countries during the period of the crisis based on data from the Central Statistical
Office, Eurostat and international market research companies. The second part of the paper analyzes the complex consequences of the economic crisis on retail trade turnover and retail shops in Hungary with special regard to geographical differences. - (AM)
Homicides, exchange rates, and northern border retail activity in Mexico
Consumer behaviour ; Criminality ; District ; Mexico ; Retail trade ; Security ; Social geography ; United States of America ; Violence
This study examines the determinants of retail sales in six cities located along Mexico’s northern border. Retail activity in these cities is found to increase in tandem with real depreciations of the peso, lower unemployment rates in neighboring US
impact on retail sales. A surge in crime levels may stifle retail activity in affected areas as extortion and attacks force some stores to close or reduce operating schedules at the same time that some potential customers elect to shop in relatively safer
This article measures the impact of agglomeration on productivity through evidence from Chilean retailers. It shows that density could increase or decrease productivity depending on the relative extent of increased competition versus productivity
Retail and wholesale enterprise among ethnic groups in core and peripheral urban centers : the late-nineteenth-century United States
Community ; Core-periphery ; Ethnicity ; Immigrants ; Nineteenth Century ; Retail trade ; Social geography ; United States of America ; Urban economy ; Wholesale trade
This study analyses the relationship between ethnic enterprise in the retail trade and co-ethnic enterprise in the wholesale trade in urban centers of core and peripheral regions of the late-nineteenth-century United States. For some groups (e.g
., Russians), co-ethnic retail and wholesale enterprises were positively related on the periphery but not in the core; conversely, for other groups (e.g., Irish), co-ethnic retail and wholesale enterprises were positively related in the core
The impact of retail establishments in hinterlands on the export role of retail establishments in rural places
Area of attraction ; Centrality ; Distance ; Export ; Geographical information system ; Hinterland ; Market area ; Model ; Montana ; Nebraska ; Retail trade ; Rural area ; Test ; United States of America
Barcelona ; Catalonia ; Ethnic minority ; Gentrification ; Large city ; Municipality ; Neighbourhood ; Retail trade ; Shopkeeper ; Spain ; Suburbs
) on the urban and social changes in this study area, this research presents a comparative analysis between the continuities and changes on ‘retails cape’ in the period of 2004 to 2011, by updating its ethnic retail cartography. Comparative results will allow
Establishing territorial embeddedness within retail transnational corporation (TNC) expansion : the contribution of store development departments
Competitiveness ; Development strategy ; Marketing ; Regional economy ; Retail trade ; Subsidiary company
Establishing territorial embeddedness within host regions in international retail expansion is well known to be important, although the processes underpinning its realization are less explicit. This research analyses some ‘emerging practices
Deconstructing supermarket intervention effects on fruit and vegetable consumption in areas of limited retail access : evidence from the Seacroft Study
Accessibility ; England ; Food ; Food consumption ; Food trade ; Fruit ; Household ; Quality of product ; Retail trade ; Social deprivation ; Social geography ; United Kingdom ; Vegetables ; West Yorkshire
This article analyses the introduction of large retailers, with low prices and wide product ranges, to poor access, particularly in Seacroft, Leeds, in the United Kingdom. The results show that for residents with easy access to the new store
This study examines whether regionally and nationally branching banks set deposits interest rates differently. This assessment of the UK retail deposit market between 1992 and 2008 indicates that regional banks set deposit interest rates in a manner
distinct to nationally branching banks. Changes in the market interest rate to retail rates are characterized by a non-linear mean-reverting process. Deposit interest rates offered by regional banks are lower, slower to respond to wholesale interest rate
Local market ; Municipality ; Retail trade ; Sweden ; Trade ; Wholesale trade
Based on a behavioral assumption regarding how retailers act when purchasing products from wholesale trade firms in Sweden, the AA. create alternative markets using Voronoi diagrams. They then compare the empirical results of investigating
Affect ; Argentina ; Buenos Aires ; Consumption ; Human body ; Identity ; Retail trade ; Shopping centre ; Social geography
By drawing on an ethnographic fieldwork at a shopping mall in central Buenos Aires, Argentina, this paper explores how retail affects are unevenly distributed across a diverse public, and how different bodies, in turn, affect the mall in particular
The paper examines, on the one hand, the current regulatory environment in relation to alcohol retailing and consumption in South Africa’s Western Cape. On the other, it explores how stakeholders of such regulations formulate, comprehend and act
Atmospheric pollution ; Belgium ; Brazil ; Ceará ; Italy ; Lima ; Mexico ; Mexico City ; Netherlands (The) ; Nordeste ; Peru ; Polycentrism ; Regional city ; Regional economy ; Retail trade ; Spatial dynamics ; Urban fragmentation ; Urban structure
polycentricity of the mega-city-region of Central Belgium based on advanced producer service transaction links ; 3-Polycentric structures in Latin American metropolitan areas : identifying employment sub-centres ; 4-Regional spatial structure and retail amenities
Colorado ; Criminality ; Decayed neighbourhood ; Drug ; Environment ; Environmental justice ; Health ; Land use ; Medical services ; Retail trade ; United States of America
and more retail employment. Thus, despite the view by many planners and law enforcement officials that these centers are problematic, they do not take on LULU characteristics in siting and demographic changes. This finding, while limited to Denver, has