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Field	Value

Title	Replication Data for: Trade Openness, Foreign Direct Investment and Child Labor (with Indra De Soysa), World Development, 33 (1), 2005, pp. 43-63

Identifier	https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/6HAXGP

Creator	Neumayer, Eric

Publisher	Harvard Dataverse

Description	The skeptics of globalization argue that increased trade openness and foreign direct investment induce developing countries to keep labor costs low, for example, by letting children work. This article argues that there are good theoretical reasons why globalization might actually have the opposite effect.We test this with various measures of childlabor and providethe first anal- ysis of foreign investment in addition to trade. We present evidence that countries that are more open to trade and/or have a higher stock of foreign direct investment also have a lower incidence of child labor. This holds for the labor force participation rate of 10–14-year old children, the sec- ondary school nonattendance rate and a count measure of economic sectors with child labor inci- dence as the dependent variables. Globalization is associated with less, not more, child labor

Subject	Social Sciences child labor trade FDI globalization MNCs sanctions

Contributor	Neumayer, Eric

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