Riding the Wave of Trade: The Rise of Labor Regulation in the Golden Age of Globalization

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Universite de Montreal; University of California System; University of California Davis; National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0507
• DOI: 10.1017/S0022050710000574
• 发表日期: 2010
• 页码: 657-685
• 关键词: industry

摘要

The received view pins the adoption of labor regulation before 1914 on domestic forces. Using directed dyad-year event history analysis, we find that trade was also a pathway of diffusion. Market access served as an important instrument to encourage the diffusion of labor regulation. The type of trade mattered as much as the volume. In the European core, states emulated the labor regulation of partners because intra-industry trade was important. The New World exported less differentiated products and pressures to imitate were weak.