There is a wide disparity of views on issues of international labor standards. The purpose of this paper is to explore these different views and the available options for addressing the issues involved. We conclude that there is no convincing case for incorporating labor standards into the WTO...

This paper is about jobs and international trade. It is about researchers can learn fo relationship between the two using firm-level data.

There have been increasing calls in recent years in the United States and other major industrialized countries for actions designed to harmonize domestic policies, institutions, and practices especially with regard to trade-related environmental and labor standards. As pointed out by Anderson...

The initial motivation for this paper was to consider whether international labor standards should be incorporated into the rules and mandate of the WTO.