TY  - JOUR
AU  - Huberman,Michael
AU  - Meissner,Christopher M.
TI  - Riding the Wave of Trade: Explaining the Rise of Labor Regulation in the Golden Age of Globalization
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 15374
PY  - 2009
Y2  - September 2009
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w15374
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w15374.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Michael Huberman
Département d'Histoire
Université de Montréal
Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, local C-6105
C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville
Montréal, Québec H3C 3J7
E-Mail: Michael.Huberman@umontreal.ca

Christopher M. Meissner
Department of Economics
University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616
Tel: +1 (530) 752-3108
Fax: +1 (530) 752-9382
E-Mail: cmmeissner@ucdavis.edu
AB  - The received view pins the adoption of labor regulation before 1914 on domestic forces. Using directed dyad-year event history analysis, we find that trade was also a pathway of diffusion. Market access served as an important instrument to encourage a level playing field. The type of trade mattered as much as the volume. In the European core, states emulated the labor regulation of partners because intraindustry trade was important. The New World exported less differentiated products and pressures to imitate were weak.
ER  -