Kucera, David2019-09-252019-09-252011-02-2120021538-5264http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/176397"[...] This article contains five sections. The section following this introduction addresses the multiple ways in which worker rights may affect FDI – not just through labour costs but also by facilitating human capital development and political and social stability – and also how the effects of worker rights vary according to the type of FDI involved, notably vertical as opposed to horizontal FDI. The next section describes the measures of worker rights used in this study, both those newly constructed from coding textual sources and others from previously available data. The following section describes the FDI model and then presents hypotheses of and modelling results for the effects of worker rights on FDI. Section 5 concludes. [...]", p. 34engWith permission of the license/copyright holderlaborfinance ethicsEconomic ethicsCore labour standards and foreign direct investmentArticle