Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/72240 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series No. WP11/23
Publisher: 
University College Dublin, UCD School of Economics, Dublin
Abstract: 
Among the many concerns over globalization is that as nations compete for mobile firms, they will relax labour standards as a method of lowering costs and attracting investment. Using spatial estimation on panel data for 148 developing countries over 18 years, we find that the labour standards in one country are positively correlated with the labour standards elsewhere (i.e. a cut in labour standards in other countries reduces labour standards in the country in question). This interdependence is more evident in labour practices (i.e. enforcement) than in labour laws. Further, competition is most fierce in those countries with already low standards.
Subjects: 
Labour Standards
Competition for FDI
Spatial Econometrics
JEL: 
J83
F23
O19
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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