The economic case for international labour standards
论证国际劳工标准的经济合理性，指出赋予工人结社和集体谈判权能带来静态和动态效率，提升发展中国家工资、就业和产出，并惠及发达国家工人。
This paper explores the economic case for international labour standards. Granting workers rights of free association and collective bargaining confers both static and dynamic economic efficiencies. Static efficiencies refer to one-time gains from improvements in economic practice. Dynamic efficiencies refer to gains from improvements to the growth path resulting from a shift away from a ‘low road’ development path to a ‘high road’ path. These efficiencies raise wages, employment and output in developing countries, and they can also benefit workers in developed countries. Labour standards are an institutional mechanism for raising the quality of growth in both developing and developed countries. In this sense, they are a ‘win–win’ institution.