The trade effects of the information provision about forced and child labor

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Does the provision of information regarding what foreign goods might be produced with child and forced labor affect imports to the U.S.? I investigate this question using the largest naming and shaming strategy ever implemented worldwide: inclusion on the U.S. government's list of goods produced with child or forced labor. This paper shows empirically that information provision decreased United States imports of goods believed to be made using child and forced labor. The results are mainly driven by the goods closer to the point of consumption, where consumers might reasonably be expected to penalise goods which rely on such labor, while no effect has been found for intermediate goods. This implies that public information strategies may be efficient in disincentivising the reliance on child and forced labor in the case of export of certain goods but not others.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: TRiSS Working Paper Series ; No. TRiSS-WPS-05-2020

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Empirical Studies of Trade ; Labor Standards: Working Conditions ; Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
• Thema: international trade ; child labor ; forced labor ; social labelling

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Klymak, Margaryta
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, Trinity Research in Social Sciences (TRiSS)
• (wo): Dublin
• (wann): 2020

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/226795
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ