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dc.titleCore Labor Standards and Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean: Does Lax Enforcement of Labor Standards Attract Investors?
dc.contributor.authorDaude, Christian
dc.contributor.authorMazza, Jacqueline
dc.contributor.authorMorrison, Andrew
dc.contributor.orgunitSustainable Development Department
dc.coverageThe Caribbean
dc.coverageSouth America
dc.coverageCentral America
dc.date.available2011-10-19T00:00:00
dc.date.issue2003-10-16T00:00:00
dc.description.abstractThis 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.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0008905
dc.identifier.urlhttps://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.isoen
dc.mediumAdobe PDF
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectLabor Policy
dc.subjectInvestment
dc.subjectWorkforce and Employment
dc.subject.keywordsLabor Standards, Foreign Direct Investment, FDI, Latin America & the Caribbean
dc.typeTechnical Notes
idb.identifier.pubnumberTechnical Notes
idb.operationNot available
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