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"Racing to the Bottom? The Effect of Chinese Foreign Direct Investment on Collective Labor Rights"

Event Type: Lecture
Sponsor: Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies
Date: Oct 29, 2021 3:00 pm
Speaker: Yujeong Yang (Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, UIUC)
Registration: Zoom Registration
Contact: YuChan Shen
E-Mail: ycshen2@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar: Campus Humanities Calendar; Does foreign direct investment improve collective labor rights in host countries? Studies have discussed how FDI originated from developed democracies may improve collective labor rights in host countries. What we don’t know is whether this positive effect of FDI on labor rights is present when FDI originates from developing economies with oppressive labor conditions.