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| dc.title | Core Labor Standards and Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean: Does Lax Enforcement of Labor Standards Attract Investors? |
| dc.contributor.author | Daude, Christian |
| dc.contributor.author | Mazza, Jacqueline |
| dc.contributor.author | Morrison, Andrew |
| dc.contributor.orgunit | Sustainable Development Department |
| dc.coverage | The Caribbean |
| dc.coverage | South America |
| dc.coverage | Central America |
| dc.date.available | 2011-10-19T00:00:00 |
| dc.date.issue | 2003-10-16T00:00:00 |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper estimates the impact of the enforcement of core labor standards on FDI in the region and contains the following: 1) Introduction; 2) Survey of the literature on the determinants of FDI: theoretical models, empirical estimation of the determinants of FDI, and the few studies that have examined specifically the links between core labor standards and FDI; 3) Description of data used in this study and explanation of the authors' decision to use sectorally-disaggregated bilateral flows of FDI from the U.S. and Japan as their dependent variable; 4) Details of the methodology used in estimations; 5) Results of the study; 6) Conclusions. |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0008905 |
| dc.identifier.url | https://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Core-Labor-Standards-and-Foreign-Direct-Investment-in-Latin-America-and-the-Caribbean-Does-Lax-Enforcement-of-Labor-Standards-Attract-Investors.pdf |
| dc.language.iso | en |
| dc.medium | Adobe PDF |
| dc.publisher | Inter-American Development Bank |
| dc.subject | Labor Policy |
| dc.subject | Investment |
| dc.subject | Workforce and Employment |
| dc.subject.keywords | Labor Standards, Foreign Direct Investment, FDI, Latin America & the Caribbean |
| dc.type | Technical Notes |
| idb.identifier.pubnumber | Technical Notes |
| idb.operation | Not available |