Multinational Corporations and Child Labor

Autor:	Rajen Mookerjee, Annalisa Orlandi
Rok vydání:	2004
Předmět:	Globalization Labour economics Host country Multinational corporation Political Science and International Relations Foreign direct investment Business and International Management Proxy (statistics) General Economics Econometrics and Finance reproductive and urinary physiology
Zdroj:	Global Economic Review. 33:1-13
ISSN:	1744-3873 1226-508X
Popis:	Using a sample of forty countries that exhibit a high incidence of child labor, this paper assesses the impact that Multinational Corporations (MNCs) have on the incidence of child labor. Our results show that higher levels of Foreign Direct Investment‐our proxy for the presence of MNCs‐have a beneficial impact on child labor rates, after controlling for other factors. This we hypothesize is achieved through a direct and an indirect channel. Using these channels MNCs pressure host country‐based subcontractors, governments, and labor markets in general. This in turn reduces the incidence of child labor.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
Externí odkaz:	https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::db3626a4d8f7d285073571c37e6472dd https://doi.org/10.1080/12265080408449859 Zobrazit plný text záznamu