Labor Provisions in Trade Agreements (LABPTA) Codebook and Coding, 1990-2015

The Labor Provisions in Trade Agreements (LABPTA) dataset provides systematic data on the design of labor provisions (LPs) in 492 preferential trade agreements spanning the period 1990-2015. It provides the most comprehensive coding of such provisions to date, covering 140 distinct items organized into six overarching categories, namely: (1) Aspirational statements relating to LPs in preamble and objectives of the agreement (P); 2) Substantive commitments in relation to LPs (S); 3) Obligations in relation to substantive LPs (O); 4) Enforceability of the substantive LPs (E); 5) Cooperation commitments over LPs (C); and 6) Institutions overseeing the labor-related commitments (I).