A Sectoral Analysis of Human Rights and FDI: Does Industry Type Matter?

Blanton, Shannon Lindsey; Blanton, Robert G.

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2478.2009.00542.x

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“…17 We attempted to subdivide manufacturing sector FDI data into high and low skill subsectors, based on the classification system devised by Blanton and Blanton (2009). The service sector is heterogeneous in terms of skill bias, and we anticipated that some service subsectors would perhaps be more strongly associated with inequality than others.…”

Section: Service Subsector Fdi and Inequalitymentioning

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Foreign direct investment and inequality in developing countries: Does sector matter?

Bogliaccini

Egan

2017

Economics & Politics

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Scholars have studied the relationship between inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and within-country income inequality in cross-national contexts, but have not empirically investigated how FDI in different sectors might affect inequality in different ways. We use error correction models to analyze sectoral FDI data compiled from UNCTAD investment reports in 60 middle-income countries from 1989 to 2010, arguing that FDI in services is more likely to be associated with inequality than FDI in other sectors. We argue that skill biases and changes in employment patterns associated with service sector investments can help explain these findings.

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Section: Service Subsector Fdi and Inequalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Foreign direct investment and inequality in developing countries: Does sector matter?

Bogliaccini

Egan

2017

Economics & Politics

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“…Empirically, most studies assessing rights and FDI analyze cross‐sectional time‐series data with a particular kind of commonly used autoregressive distributed lag model (ADL). For instance, Kim and Trumbore () use a dead start model and Blanton and Blanton (, , ) use a partial adjustment model, a static model, and a dead start model . However, commonly employed ADLs impose particular restrictions that may not be justifiable.…”

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“…Recognizing that the causal arrow may go in the other direction, Blanton and Blanton (, , ) examine how respect for human rights affects investors' decisions. They find that human rights abuses, as measured by the Political Terror Scale, are negatively and statistically significantly related to FDI inflows (2006).…”

Section: Reversing the Causal Arrow: When Rights Affect Fdimentioning

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Attracting Investment: Governments' Strategic Role in Labor Rights Protection

Payton

Woo

2014

Int Stud Q

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What is the relationship between respect for labor rights and foreign direct investment (FDI)? This study explores this connection with an emphasis on the strategic role of governments in attracting FDI. We present a formal model demonstrating that governments can do so by setting the level of labor rights protection and, as a consequence, investors will choose to invest in the face of tough labor regulations or cease investing, anticipating that the costs of abiding by these regulations will be too high. The model also suggests that governments will have an incentive to implement labor regulations when enforcement costs are sufficiently low or the profits from investment are sufficiently high. Using data from developing countries across time, error correction models test the dynamic nature of these hypotheses and find support for them: strict labor laws tend to decrease inflow of FDI, but more FDI tends to encourage better labor practices.

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“…As discussed in section III, several scholars have shown that policymakers often hope WTO membership will not only expand trade, but help them attract more foreign investment. Scholars have also examined the effects of FDI on government respect for human rights (Richards, Gelleny, and Sacko 2001; Blanton and Blanton 2009). Thus, FDI may have an important effect in both stages of our analysis.…”

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Unexpected Bedfellows: The GATT, the WTO and Some Democratic Rights1

Aaronson

Abouharb

2011

International Studies Quarterly

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The WTO system and democratic rights are unexpected bedfellows. The GATT ⁄ WTO requires governments to adopt policies that provide foreign products (read producers) with due process, political participation, and information rights related to trade policymaking. Because these nations also provide these rights to their citizens, a growing number of people are learning how to influence trade-related policies. As trade today encompasses many areas of governance, these same citizens may gradually transfer the skills learned from influencing trade policies to other public issues. Thus, the WTO not only empowers foreign market actors, but also citizens in repressive states. We use both qualitative and quantitative analysis to examine whether membership in the WTO over time leads to improvements in these democratic rights. Our qualitative analysis shows that these issues are discussed during accessions and trade policy reviews. Quantitative analysis examines how members of the GATT ⁄ WTO perform on these democratic rights over time. We use a cross-national time series design of all countries, accounting for selection issues of why countries become members of the GATT ⁄ WTO regime. We find that longer GATT ⁄ WTO membership leads to stronger performance on our metrics for political participation, free and fair elections, and access to information.The world's most misunderstood international institution, the World Trade Organization (WTO), sits in a grand palace on the shores of Lake Geneva. This organization, once a club called the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), was designed to stimulate trade. The GATT ⁄ WTO regulates protectionism, serves as a forum for trade negotiations, and settles trade disputes. It is also an international agreement that establishes the rule of law in international trade for citizens of 153 nations.Trade grew dramatically under the aegis of the GATT ⁄ WTO, and thus the organization has played an important role in global economic growth. Yet many 1 The authors are grateful to scholars and students at

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A Sectoral Analysis of Human Rights and FDI: Does Industry Type Matter?

Cited by 66 publications

References 58 publications

Foreign direct investment and inequality in developing countries: Does sector matter?

Foreign direct investment and inequality in developing countries: Does sector matter?

Attracting Investment: Governments' Strategic Role in Labor Rights Protection

Unexpected Bedfellows: The GATT, the WTO and Some Democratic Rights1

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