Racing to the Bottom or Climbing to the Top? Economic Globalization and Collective Labor Rights

By L. Mosley, S. Uno. 2007

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Public Administration, Strategy and Management

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The domestic battle over the design of non-trade issues in preferential trade agreements (2016, background): “With regard to the economic and social rights protection level, I revert to the ’Collective Labour Rights’ index by Mosley and Uno (2007).”
Geographic Variations in the Early Diffusion of Corporate Voluntary Standards: Comparing ISO 14001 and the Global Compact (2010, background): “A third set of explanations emphasize various forms of transnational contact, communication, and exchange (Mosley and Uno, 2007; Potoski and Prakash, 2004).”
Racing to the bottom? Chinese development projects and trade union involvement in Africa (2018, methodology): “As noted, union involvement captures a central dimension of collective labour rights, which in turn are important for production costs (Mosley and Uno, 2007; Caraway, 2009).”
Does dialogue work? The effectiveness of labor standards in EU preferential trade agreements (2014, methodology): “Third, following Mosley and Uno (2007), we include additional control variables: foreign direct investment inflows (current US dollars, logged) and total population (logged).”
Labor Unions, Political Representation, and Economic Inequality (2017, background): “Given the paucity of comparable longitudinal data on both unionization and the income distribution for countries outside the OECD, scholars have turned to other indicators, most notably collective rights—the de jure extent of workers’ rights and violations in practice (Mosley & Uno 2007).”
Organizations, Regulation, and Economic Behavior: Regulatory Dynamics and Forms from the Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century (2008, background): “Trade intensity (as distinguished from foreign direct investment) is associated with downgrading labor rights in developing countries (Mosley & Uno 2007), and globalization in the shipping industry has fostered flagging standards and a race to the regulatory middle in safety, environmental, and…”