@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp12794,
            	author={Robertson, Raymond},
            	title={Working Conditions, Transparency, and Compliance in Global Value Chains: Evidence from Better Work Jordan},
            	year={2019},
	month={Nov},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={12794},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12794},
	abstract={This paper estimates how compliance with national labor law and international labor standards within Jordan's garment exporting factories changed after the implementation of a transparency program that made compliance assessments publicly available. The estimation employs data from Better Work Jordan that cover all garment-exporting factories over the 2008-2018 period. Using a difference-in-difference approach that is often applied to control for endogeneity, this paper finds that compliance improved following the implementation of transparency. Compliance increased in a group of 28 critical compliance areas that represent fundamental worker rights relative to relevant comparison groups. The results are robust to a number of additional controls, definitions of the transparency period, and estimation approaches.},
	keywords={global value chains;working conditions;transparency},
            }