 Globalization, Wages, and Working Conditions: A Case Study of Cambodian Garment FactoriesCael Warren () and Raymond Robertson Working Papers from eSocialSciences Abstract: The authors use a comprehensive data set of working conditions and wage compliance in Cambodia’s exporting garment factories to explore (1) the impact of foreign ownership on wages and working conditions, (2) whether the relationship between wages and working conditions within these exporting factories more closely resembles efficiency wage or compensating differential theory, and (3) whether the wage-working conditions relationship differs between domestically owned and foreign-owned firms. They find that foreign ownership increases compliance on both wages and working conditions, contradicting the contention that higher wages in foreign-owned firms compensate workers for worse working conditions. In addition, they find that a robust positive relationship between wages and working conditions in the sample as a whole, suggesting that efficiency wages or a similar theory more accurately explains the behavior of these exporting firms than compensating differentials. Working Paper 257 URL: http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425198 Keywords: factories; garment; cambodia; compensating differentials; apparel; work; workers; wages; working conditions; trans national corporations; garment (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:4505 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Working Papers from eSocialSciences |
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