Worker Empowerment through Labor Standards. Evidence from the Peruvian Horticultural Export Sector

Monica Schuster and Miet Maertens

No 208142, Working Papers from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Centre for Agricultural and Food Economics

Abstract: In this paper we analyse the impact of a variety of private standards on worker empowerment in the horticultural export sector in Peru. Empowerment is defined as workers’ knowledge on their own rights and workers’ perceived agency to improve employment conditions. We use data from a company and a two-round employee survey, and difference-in-difference propensity score matching methods. We find positive effects of private standards on worker empowerment, with core labour standards having a more pronounced effect than standards with a small focus on labour, and thus complement previous evidence on the effects of standards on tangible employee wellbeing.

Keywords: Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Crop Production/Industries; Industrial Organization; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; International Development; Labor and Human Capital; Land Economics/Use (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30
Date: 2015-07
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (7)

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/208142/files/BioeconWP_2015_07_updated.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:kucawp:208142

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.208142

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Centre for Agricultural and Food Economics Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().