The Effects of International Scrutiny on Manufacturing Workers: Evidence from the Rana Plaza Collapse in Bangladesh

Bossavie, Laurent; Cho, Yoonyoung; Heath, Rachel

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3708644

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“…Foreign buyers implemented reforms in response to this accident, including a minimum wage increase, voluntary audits, and an increased reluctance to sub-contract to smaller factories. Bossavie et al (2019) show that such reforms led to an improvement in overall working conditions in the garment sector, although at the expense of hourly wages for female workers, possibly due to the sector's globally competitive nature. Foreign multinationals in Bangladesh are also shown to play a growing role in improving working conditions in compliance with labour law upstream in their supply chains (Boudreau, 2020).…”

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Women empowerment, supply chain linkages and FDI: Evidence from Bangladesh

Fernandes¹,

Kee²

2021

Transnational Corporations

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This paper studies foreign direct investment spillovers on the gender-related labour market practice of domestic firms, based on a unique firm-to-firm data set of Bangladesh's textiles and garment sectors. The paper looks at the female employment of domestic firms that are directly and indirectly related to foreignowned firms through supply chain linkages. These domestic firms are either the local suppliers or customers of foreign-owned firms, or they share local suppliers and customers with foreign-owned firms. The estimates show that domestic firms related to foreign-owned firms have significantly more female administrative workers, but not necessarily more female non-administrative workers, owing to the former participating in more firm-to-firm interactions.

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Women empowerment, supply chain linkages and FDI: Evidence from Bangladesh

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2021

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“…As these policies have the stated objective to benefit worker welfare in sourcing markets, our analysis sets out to investigate this question theoretically and empirically. 4 Bossavie et al (2020) study the effects of improvements in Bangladeshi labor regulations after the factory collapse of Rana Plaza in 2013. Using a synthetic control approach, they find that working conditions improved whereas female wages decreased.…”

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