International Labor Standards and Trade: What Should Be Done?
- Topics:
- Business Ethics,
- Labor Standards
- Tags:
- Developing Country Governments Employer,
- Human Resources,
- Institute For International Economics,
- Labor Relations,
- Labor Standards
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Overview: To date, the debate over trade and labor standards has been frustratingly sterile with the key parties mostly talking past one another. Developing country governments employer's organizations and many trade economists have rejected any discussion of possible linkages between trade and labor standards, arguing that demands for such linking are a cover for old fashioned protectionism. In this document one argues that there is a set of core labor standards that should be universally applied regardless of a country's level of development. Second, these core standards should be subject to international negotiations and monitoring. Third the consensus on these issues is too shallow to make a social clause in the World Trade Organization (WTO) either feasible or desirable.
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Format: PDF | Size: 169KB | Date: Jan 2002 | Pages: 13
