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Domestic Policies, National Sovereignty and International Economic Institutions

Bagwell, Kyle - 1999

To what extent must nations cede control over their economic and social policies if global efficiency is to be achieved in an interdependent world? This question is at the center of the debate over the future role of GATT (and its successor, the WTO) in the realm of labor and environmental...

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Migration, Social Standards and Replacement Incomes : How to Protect Low-income Workers in the Industrialized Countries Against the Forces of Globalization and Market Integration

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2004

This paper discusses how an industrialized country could defend the wages and social benefits of its unskilled workers against wage competition from immigrants. It shows that fixing social standards harms the workers and that fixing social replacement incomes implies migration into unemployment....

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Trade Wars : The Exaggerated Impact of Trade in Economic Debate

Freeman, Richard B. - 2003

The rules governing trade and capital flows have been at the center of controversy as globalization has proceeded. One … market. Changes in trade policy have had modest impacts on labour market. Other aspects of globalization -- immigration …

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Global Value Chains and Labor Standards : The Race-to-the-Bottom Problem

Im, Hye-jun; McLaren, John - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We ask how globalization affects a government's incentives to set labor standards for its workers. In a stylized … with globalization than it would under autarky, because labor standards are a normal good and the general increase in … incomes from globalization increases demand for them. We call this the effect of `globalization in the large.' Second, if more …

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Challenges to globalization : analyzing the economics

Baldwin, Robert E. (ed.) - 2004

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Do International Labor Standards Contribute to the Persistence of the Child Labor Problem?

Doepke, Matthias - 2009

In recent years, a number of governments and consumer groups in rich countries have tried to discourage the use of child labor in poor countries through measures such as product boycotts and the imposition of international labor standards. The purported objective of such measures is to reduce...

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Moving Up or Moving Out? Anti-Sweatshop Activists and Labor Market Outcomes

Harrison, Ann - 2004

During the 1990s, human rights and anti-sweatshop activists increased their efforts to improve working conditions and raise wages for workers in developing countries. These campaigns took many different forms: direct pressure to change legislation in developing countries, pressure on firms,...

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The Effects of Multinational Production on Wages and Working Conditions in Developing Countries

Brown, Drusilla K. - 2003

This paper assesses the evidence regarding the effects of multinational production on wages and working conditions in developing countries. It is motivated by recent controversies concerning whether multinational firms in developing countries exploit workers by paying low wages and subjecting...

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Social Dumping in the Transformation Process?

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2001

Business representatives and union leaders in highly industrialised countries often accuse the governments of less-developed countries of practising social dumping in the sense of deliberately neglecting work-place safety legislation, co-determination rights and other fringe benefits which...

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The Simple Economics of Labor Standards and the GATT

Bagwell, Kyle - 1998

How should the issue of domestic labor standards be handled in the GATT/ WTO? This question is part of a broader debate over the appropriate scope of international economic institutions such as the GATT, where member-countries are considering proposals for a new round of n3 negotiations that...

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