This study empirically investigates the impact of core labour standards on income inequality for a range of 90 countries from 1990 to 2000. We focus on the four core labour standards (prohibition of child labour, freedom of association and collective bargaining, prohibition of discrimination,...

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...