I explore the relationship between economic growth and international labor standards in a panel of 121 countries from 1974 to 2004. A large literature has empirically tested the neoclassical growth model using cross-sectional or panel regressions. Here, I augment the growth model with labor...

According to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the private sector plays a key role in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). After all, sustainable and inclusive economic growth is essential to...

The paper focuses on the impact of international core labor standards on long-term per-capita income. In order to do that, it is necessary to build a new synthetic indicator of labor standards using multiple correspondence analysis, measuring the four core labor standards recognized by ILO. We...