relationship between transparency on working conditions and firm compliance in the apparel sector in Vietnam between 2010 and 2018 … public disclosure program that would see factories' names made publicly available along with their compliance (or lack … noncompliance rates over time, and then examines the impact of the public disclosure policy on compliance rates and firm dropout …

Purpose The authors investigate the impact of standards compliance on the participation in the global value chain and … and that are suggested by the literature. Findings The authors find that standards compliance by Vietnam's SMEs improved … standards compliance improved the value-added of labour in Vietnam's SMEs, which is robust to the choice of econometric models …