Public Disclosure and Labor Law Compliance Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • AbstractPublic disclosure of labor conditions has been suggested as one way to encourage compliance with labor law and improvements in working conditions. Analyzing labor law compliance data in the apparel industry from Better Factories Cambodia, this paper finds that after the elimination of public disclosure of factorylevel noncompliance the rate of increase in compliance slowed,but did not return to the baseline, even in the absence of a reputation sensitive buyer.

published proceedings

  • Review of Development Economics

altmetric score

  • 9

author list (cited authors)

  • Ang, D., Brown, D., Dehejia, R., & Robertson, R.

citation count

  • 22

complete list of authors

  • Ang, Debra||Brown, Drusilla||Dehejia, Rajeev||Robertson, Raymond

publication date

  • November 2012

publisher