Working Conditions and Factory Survival: Evidence from Better Factories Cambodia

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A large and growing literature has identified several conditions, including exporting, that contribute to plant survival. A prevailing sentiment suggests that anti-sweatshop activity against plants in developing countries adds the risk of making survival more difficult by imposing external constraints that may interfere with optimizing behavior. Using a relatively new plant-level panel dataset from Cambodia, this paper applies survival analysis to estimate the relationship between changes in working conditions and plant closure. The results find little, if any, evidence that improving working conditions increases the probability of closure. In fact, some evidence suggests that improvements in standards relating to compensation are positively correlated with the probability of plant survival.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 10026

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft
• Subject: working conditions ; apparel ; sweatshops ; plant survival ; closure

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Robertson, Raymond ; Brown, Drusilla ; Dehejia, Rajeev
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2016

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/145160
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET