Labor Standards: Where Do They Belong on the International Trade Agenda?

Brown, Drusilla K.

doi:10.1257/jep.15.3.89

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“…8 While previous studies do not directly address the impact of anti-sweatshop activism on wages, an excellent overview of foreign ownership and wages can be found in Drusilla K. Brown, Alan V. Deardorff, and Robert M. Stern (2004). 9 A discussion of the links between trade and labor standards is provided by Brown (2001). Other related work includes Eric V. Edmonds and Nina Pavcnik (2001), who explore how rice prices affected the use of child labor in Vietnam.…”

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Multinationals and Anti-Sweatshop Activism

Harrison

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2010

American Economic Review

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During the 1990s, anti-sweatshop activists campaigned to improve conditions for workers in developing countries. This paper analyzes the impact of anti-sweatshop campaigns in Indonesia on wages and employment. Identification is based on comparing the wage growth of workers in foreign-owned and exporting firms in targeted regions or sectors before and after the initiation of anti-sweatshop campaigns. We find the campaigns led to large real wage increases for targeted enterprises. There were some costs in terms of reduced investment, falling profits, and increased probability of closure for smaller plants, but we fail to find significant effects on employment. (JEL F23, J31, J81, L67, O14, O15)

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Multinationals and Anti-Sweatshop Activism

Harrison

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2010

American Economic Review

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“…While empirical evidence directly on any of these issues is non-existent, it is worth reviewing the issues raised in the theoretical literature. More rigorous surveys of the theoretical work in this area are in Maskus (1997), Basu (1999), andBrown (2001).…”

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Child Labor

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2007

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In recent years, there has been an astonishing proliferation of empirical work on child labor. An Econlit search of keywords "child lab*r" reveals a total of 6 peer reviewed journal articles between 1980 and 1990, 65 between 1990 and 2000, and 143 in the first five years of the present decade. The purpose of this essay is to provide a detailed overview of the state of the recent empirical literature on why and how children work as well as the consequences of that work. Section 1 defines terms commonly used in the study of child time allocation and provides a descriptive overview of how children spend their time in low income countries today. Section 2 reviews the case for attention to the most common types of work in which children participate, focusing on that work's impact on schooling, health, as well as externalities associated with that work. Section 3 considers the literature on the determinants of child time allocation such as the influence of local labor markets, family interactions, the net return to schooling, and poverty. Section 5 discusses the limited evidence on different policy options aimed at influencing child labor. Section 6 concludes by emphasizing important research questions requiring additional research such as child and parental agency, the effectiveness of child labor policies, and the determinants of participation in the "worst forms" of child labor.

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“…Products are brought from suppliers, with who they are relationship that is much looser than the companies had with their own subsidiaries before are. In some cases, the Multinational Enterprises itself turns out, in the end, to be not much more than the advertising leg of the production chain, responsible for promotion and selling of the product only, (Brown, 2001). …”

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The Current Status of Collective Bargaining and Its Implications on Bottom-Line Performance in Nigeria Oil and Gas Industry

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2012

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Labor Standards: Where Do They Belong on the International Trade Agenda?

Cited by 76 publications

References 19 publications

Multinationals and Anti-Sweatshop Activism

Multinationals and Anti-Sweatshop Activism

Child Labor

The Current Status of Collective Bargaining and Its Implications on Bottom-Line Performance in Nigeria Oil and Gas Industry

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