Just Linkage: International Trade and Labor Standards

Main Paper:

Please click here to download a copy of “Just Linkage: International Trade and Labor Standards” (full length argument).

Accompanying Papers:

Please click here to download a copy of “Promoting Poor Countries’ Interests in the International Trading System: A Proposal”

(short summary of argument).

Please click here to download a copy of “Public Policy Analysis Today and Tomorrow” (methodological statement). 

Data and Analysis:

Please click here to download a summary of data on the share of direct labor

costs in the total costs of surveyed manufacturing enterprises (by industry and income level of country).

(Source: Authors’ calculations based on UNIDO INDSTAT Database).

Please click here to download the spreadsheet “IndifferenceRatioScenarios.xls”