Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/215190 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 12794
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper estimates how compliance with national labor law and international labor standards within Jordan's garment exporting factories changed after the implementation of a transparency program that made compliance assessments publicly available. The estimation employs data from Better Work Jordan that cover all garment-exporting factories over the 2008-2018 period. Using a difference-in-difference approach that is often applied to control for endogeneity, this paper finds that compliance improved following the implementation of transparency. Compliance increased in a group of 28 critical compliance areas that represent fundamental worker rights relative to relevant comparison groups. The results are robust to a number of additional controls, definitions of the transparency period, and estimation approaches.
Subjects: 
global value chains
working conditions
transparency
JEL: 
J8
J5
J3
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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