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The impact of anti‐sweatshop activism on employment
Author(s) -
Makioka Ryo
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
review of development economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1467-9361
pISSN - 1363-6669
DOI - 10.1111/rode.12750
Subject(s) - sweatshop , multinational corporation , labour economics , economics , political science , demographic economics , business , market economy , law
Abstract While the literature on anti‐sweatshop campaigns has empirically rejected their negative impact on employment, this study shows that anti‐sweatshop activism had a negative impact on employment for multinational companies in Indonesia. This result suggests that the prior findings are a result of disregarding the differences in some dimensions of firm characteristics between the treatment and control groups.