Core labour standards and FDI: Friends or foes? the case of child labour

Review of World Economics

Volumn 142, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 765-791

  Braun, Sebastian ^a,b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b School of Business and Economics   (Germany)

Author keywords

Child labour; Core labour standards; FDI

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845939922     PISSN: 16102878     EISSN: 16102886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10290-006-0092-6     Document Type: Article

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