Pros and Cons of Linking Trade and Labor Standards

Drusilla Brown (), Alan Deardorff and Robert Stern

No 477, Working Papers from Research Seminar in International Economics, University of Michigan

Abstract: This paper addresses the debate over whether labor standards ought to be linked to trade policy, specifically by being included in the World Trade Organization and becoming subject to trade sanctions. We first try to put the debate into context by reviewing the issues and the events that have led to the current situation. We next turn to the arguments in favor of putting labor standards into the WTO, then address the arguments against doing so. Finally we offer our own advice to developing countries as to the position that they should take in this debate, and how more broadly they should deal with this and other issues in multilateral trade negotiations.

Keywords: Labor; Standards (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 Pages
Date: 2002
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