Krisztina Kis-Katos


Krisztina Kis-Katos is a PhD student at the University of Freiburg, Germany. She received her Master in International Economics from the University of Konstanz. Her main research areas are international economics, and the economics of child labour. She is currently working on a research project on social standards and international trade funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.




Papers Published in World Economics:

Labour Standards and International Trade

Can a case be made for the imposition of international minimum labour standards? And if so, on what grounds? The authors systematically present the existing theoretical and empirical arguments for and against introducing minimum labour standards on the international level, and discuss whether trade sanctions are the instrument of choice to improve labour standards around the world.

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