INTERNATIONAL LABOR STANDARDS AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CHILD-LABOR REGULATION

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio
• 署名单位: Northwestern University; University of Zurich
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1542-4766
• DOI: 10.1162/JEEA.2009.7.2-3.508
• 发表日期: 2009
• 页码: 508-518
• 关键词: trade

摘要

Child labor is a persistent phenomenon in many developing countries. In recent years, support has been growing among rich-country governments and consumer groups for the use of trade policies, such as product boycotts and the imposition of international labor standards, to reduce child labor in poor countries. In this paper, we discuss research on the long-run implications of such policies. In particular, we demonstrate that such measures may have the unintended side effect of lowering domestic support for banning child labor within developing countries, and thus may contribute to the persistence of the child-labor problem. (JEL: I21, J88, O11, O19, O24)