علاقه سازنده در استانداردهای نیروی کار خارجی

This paper considers the producer interest in foreign labor standards. We describe multinational, import-competing and exporting firms that have different preferences regarding foreign labor standards and which lobby a government to implement their preferred policy. The policy position chosen by the government depends on the form of international market integration and on the domestic political process. We compare the producer interests in foreign labor standards with protection through a tariff, and show that there are asymmetries, so that seeking to change foreign labor standards does not correspond to seeking tariff protection, although the reason for the producer interest in foreign labor standards is producers' profits.