Samy, Yiagadeesen; Dehejia, Vivek H. - Carleton University, Department of Economics - 2008
Using a gravity model, we examine whether labor standards are important determinants of bilateral export performance … for EU-15 countries over the period 1988-2001. We assess the conventional wisdom that countries with low labor standards …-indexed gravity model to conduct our empirical investigation. Our empirical results indicate that labor standards matter, but that the …