TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Doepke, Matthias
AU  - Zilibotti, Fabrizio
        TI  - International Labor Standards and the Political Economy of Child Labor Regulation
        PY  - 2008/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 3742
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp3742
        AB  - Child labor is a persistent phenomenon in many developing countries. In recent years, support has been growing among rich-country governments and consumer groups for the use of trade policies, such as product boycotts and the imposition of international labor standards, to reduce child labor in poor countries. In this paper, we discuss research on the long-run implications of such policies. In particular, we demonstrate that such measures may have the unintended side effect of lowering domestic support for banning child labor within developing countries, and thus may contribute to the persistence of the child-labor problem.
        KW  - political economy
KW  - child labor
KW  - trade sanctions
KW  - international labor standards
        ER  -