Research On Impact Of Core Labor Standards On China Labor Intensive Products Export

With the development of economic globalization,world trade advocate more free trade and oppose trade protectionism.The traditional trade barriers such as tariff be extremely limited,and labor standards has increasing attention from the international community in international trade.Developed and developing countries have fierce debate on whether to establish a unified labor standards worldwide,the developed countries such as America proposed directly linked labor standards with international trade.China as the representative of the developing world,and is the world's largest labor intensive products exporter,export must be affected.So we make sure the relations between labor standards and labor-intensive products export trade,has a certain significance.It can help China's enterprises deal with labor standards,promote sustainable and healthy development of foreign trade.In this paper,core labor standards and export of labor-intensive industries be studied,we explore the impact of labor standards on China's export trade.Firstly,we have theoretical analysis of the relationship between them.the concept of labor standards are defined and explore linking of labor standards and trade issues as well as the historical origins on the labor standards.Then the mechanism of labor standards on export are analyzed using economic theory and the theory of international trade.We selected three indicators to measure the level of core labor standards,which are the wage of labor,female labor participation rate,social security insurance rate.The empirical results show that there is a positive correlation between wage,female labor participation rate and export,and pass significant test at the 1%level,there is a positive correlation between social security insurance rate and export,pass significant test at the level of 5%,it can be concluded that there is positive correlation between the export of labor-intensive products and core labor standards,A higher level of labor standards will be more conducive to China's labor-intensive export.Our country do not obtain a lower price comparative advantage as developed countries had claimed by a lower level of labor standards to reduce the price of export products.Finally the author proposals respectively from the macro level government and micro-level enterprises how to better deal with the issue of labor standards,that the government should strive labor standard level good for developing countries in legislation,policy and strategy formulation system.Enterprises should strengthen the protection of labor rights,enhance awareness of labor standards and actively bear social responsibility.