%0 Report
        %A Robertson, Raymond
        %T Working Conditions, Transparency, and Compliance in Global Value Chains: Evidence from Better Work Jordan
        %D 2019
        %8 2019 Nov
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 12794
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12794
        %X 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.
        %K global value chains
%K working conditions
%K transparency