Wacker, Konstantin M.; Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2011
reductions in their labor standards to attract job-creating horizontal foreign direct investment. By disentangling US FDI data … for 34 advanced host countries throughout the period 1997 to 2002 into vertically and horizontally motivated FDI, we show … economically considerable negative impact of horizontal US FDI on labor right practices in industrialized host countries by using a …