Multinationals and Anti-Sweatshop Activism

By A. Harrison, Jason Scorse. 2010

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Minimum wage coverage and compliance in developing countries (2013, background): “Also, non-compliance with minimum wages can be difficult to detect 10 See, for example, Ashenfelter and Smith (1979); Harrison and Scorse (2010); Lemos (2004); Jaramillo Baanante (2004); Cunningham (2007); Gindling and Trejos (2010); Alaniz, Gindling and Terrell (2011); Belser and Rani (2011);…”
High Unemployment Yet Few Small Firms: The Role of Centralized Bargaining in South Africa (2012, background): “…and town-industry fixed ef- fects, I show that these spatial discontinuities are similar in magnitude and precision whether only inter-industry variation (within a town-year) or intertemporal variation (within a townindustry) is utilized, and that estimates increase in magnitude and…”
Codes in context: How states, markets, and civil society shape adherence to global labor standards: Codes in context (2015, background): “Studies that have investigated how activism affects labor outcomes have focused on pressure targeted directly at suppliers, not at their multinational buyers (Harrison & Scorse 2010).”
Greenwash vs. Brownwash: Exaggeration and Undue Modesty in Corporate Sustainability Disclosure (2015, background): “Furthermore, social issues such as sweatshop labor and equal employment opportunity are amenable to pressure from secondary stakeholders (Harrison and Scorse 2010) and are likely to generate dynamics similar to those for environmental issues.”
African Economic Outlook 2012 (2012, background): “In Indonesia during the 1990s, increased compliance with minimum wages was the key pathway to increased pay in the textile, footwear and apparel industry (Harrison and Scorse, 2010).”
Does FDI Bring Good Jobs to Host Countries? (2012, background): “However, more recent data from Indonesia spanning the 1988–96 period indicate that multinational firms are less likely to shut down than are comparable domestic enterprises (Harrison and Scorse 2010).”
Occupational Choice in Early Industrializing Societies: Experimental Evidence on the Income and Health Effects of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Work (2016, unknown): “An important example is Harrison and Scorse (2010), who show that anti-sweatshop activists campaigns in Indonesia led to large real wage increases in targeted enterprises, with some costs in terms of reduced investment, falling profits, and increased probability of closure for smaller plants, but…”