Replication Data for: Racing to the Bottom? Chinese Foreign Direct Investment and Collective Labor Rights (doi:10.7910/DVN/NYTAYE)

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Replication Data for: Racing to the Bottom? Chinese Foreign Direct Investment and Collective Labor Rights

doi:10.7910/DVN/NYTAYE

Harvard Dataverse

2023-11-22

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Interactions, International, 2023, "Replication Data for: Racing to the Bottom? Chinese Foreign Direct Investment and Collective Labor Rights", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NYTAYE, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:1lKfywKoUnM1VMuoCR1HwA== [fileUNF]

Replication Data for: Racing to the Bottom? Chinese Foreign Direct Investment and Collective Labor Rights

doi:10.7910/DVN/NYTAYE

Interactions, International (University of Pittsburgh)

Harvard Dataverse

Interactions, International

Interactions, International

2023-08-29

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NYTAYE

Social Sciences, FDI, China, collective labor rights, Multinational corporations, labor standards

Studies have discussed how and if foreign direct investment (FDI) may improvecollective labor rights in host countries. These studies presume FDI is from developeddemocracies to developing countries. Far less discussed is whether this positive effectof FDI on labor rights holds when FDI originates from a developing economy withoppressive labor conditions. The rapid rise of China as a new source of FDI providesan opportunity to examine this question. Using a time-series cross-sectional datasetcovering 123 countries from 2003 to 2017, I test how Chinese FDI influences the collectivelabor rights of host countries in both developing and developed regions and whetherthe effect of Chinese FDI differs from that of FDI from other countries. I find that FDIfrom China is negatively associated with collective labor rights in host countries, whilenon-Chinese FDI does not have such a negative effect. The negative impact of ChineseFDI on collective labor rights is more pronounced in host countries in developingregions than in developed regions.

• Number of cases: 1845

• No. of variables per record: 41

• Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

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• country - country
• cowcode - COW 3-digit code
• year
• china_ofdi_stock - Chinese ofdi stock (USD)
• nonchina_fdi_inflow_gdp - Non-Chinese FDI, inflow (\% of GDP)
• fdi_stock_gdp - FDI stock in GDP (\%)
• cofdi_stock_gdp - Chinese FDI(\% of GDP)
• nonchina_fdi_stock_gdp - Other FDI (\% of GDP)
• overallLR - overall labor rights (reversed)
• lawLR - labor rights in law (reversed)
• practiceLR - labor rights in practice (reversed)
• gdp_log - GDP (log)
• gdpgrowth - GDP growth (\%)
• polity2 - Polity
• bit_update - BITs
• bit_rat_china_carryover - BIT with China
• trade - Trade (\% of GDP)
• rents - Natural resources rents (\% of GDP)
• bri_cfr_carryover - BRI membership
• intrastate - Intrastate conflicts
• interstate_all - interstate conflicts
• sri_l - Substantive Rights Index, Law
• sri_p - Substantive Rights Index, Practice
• ilo - ILO ratification
• probability_cofdi
• devcountries
• primary_cgit_gdp
• secondary_cgit_gdp
• tertiary_cgit_gdp
• state_1 - SOE OFDI count (Stone et al)
• private - private OFDI count (Stone et al)
• leadervisit - Leader visit
• unscmember - UNSC
• cofdi_stock_overallfdi - (cofdi_stock /overallfdi_stock_dev) *100
• overallLR_inc - Economic peer's labor standards
• overallLR_geo - Regional labor standards
• taiwan - Taiwan
• FDI_demo_gdp_unctad
• FDI_auto_gdp_unctad
• FDI_developed_gdp_unctad
• FDI_developing_gdp_unctad

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Variable Format: numeric

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f7346121 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 2010.0; Max. 2017.0; StDev 4.321665140643418; Min. 2003.0; Valid 1845.0

Variable Format: numeric

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f7346121 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 0.0; Max. 6.7381E10; StDev 3.948858116766985E9; Valid 1765.0; Mean 1.1114288555240705E9

Variable Format: numeric

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f7346121 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 0.0; Mean 49.3744920410655; StDev 117.6728288870925; Max. 1699.5660400390625; Valid 1605.0

Variable Format: numeric

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f7346121 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 119.30081602661372; Min. 5.199999986160719E-9; Max. 1961.19287109375; Valid 1629.0; Mean 50.09824759839373

Variable Format: numeric

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f7346121 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 3.975644067138428; Min. 1.307775528402999E-5; Mean 1.1592247143000391; Valid 1764.0; Max. 56.077606201171875;

Variable Format: numeric

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f7346121 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 1699.5660400390625; Min. -1.6395490169525146; StDev 114.7654788137911; Mean 49.80117259414999; Valid 1754.0

Variable Format: numeric

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f7346121 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 1151.0; Min. 0.0; Max. 10.0; Mean 6.222119629849144; StDev 2.6140662978582334

Variable Format: numeric

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f7346121 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 7.201562625133499; Valid 1151.0; StDev 2.4819315844134815; Min. 0.0; Max. 10.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:CGimuBkhiAHbW6MIxV2wQA==

f7346121 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 10.0; Min. 0.0; StDev 2.6906658697403083; Valid 1151.0; Mean 6.679840974140749;

Variable Format: numeric

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f7346121 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 25.04104485343788; StDev 1.972034048207412; Min. 20.183242797851562; Max. 30.487709045410156; Valid 1845.0

Variable Format: numeric

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f7346121 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 4.105404710340395; Max. 123.13955519858197; Valid 1845.0; StDev 5.431362386694052; Min. -62.07591958490011;

Variable Format: numeric

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f7346121 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. -10.0; Valid 1818.0; Mean 4.9477447744773935; Max. 10.0; StDev 6.090495123511604;

Variable Format: numeric

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f7346121 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 133.0; Valid 1845.0; Min. 0.0; Mean 30.941463414634097; StDev 26.103536529219774;

Variable Format: numeric

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f7346121 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 0.47593258427131796; Valid 1845.0; Min. 0.0; Mean 0.6536585365853648; Max. 1.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:jbYYuse4z44+33PhIMXr2g==

f7346121 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 51.45262496379313; Valid 1794.0; Max. 441.6038067448977; Mean 87.63128584335367; Min. 0.16741763893226877

Variable Format: numeric

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f7346121 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 68.7900806637669; Valid 1842.0; Mean 8.444225562675369; Min. 3.11137475960665E-4; StDev 12.262448707861251

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:bq72QudLduWiYIRsI1m5jA==

f7346121 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 1845.0; Mean 0.054742547425474235; Min. 0.0; StDev 0.22753870580851093; Max. 1.0

Variable Format: numeric

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f7346121 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 1845.0; Max. 6.0; StDev 0.5858497550167217; Mean 0.18048780487804508; Min. 0.0

Variable Format: numeric

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f7346121 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 1845.0; StDev 0.24502288071890008; Mean 0.04823848238482398; Max. 3.0; Min. 0.0

Variable Format: numeric

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f7346121 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 7.4917012448132825; Max. 10.0; StDev 1.3803748380865801; Min. 3.0; Valid 964.0

Variable Format: numeric

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f7346121 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 4.334736842105267; Max. 10.0; Valid 950.0; Min. 0.0; StDev 2.4962677481393976;

Variable Format: numeric

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f7346121 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 0.0; Mean 1.4737127371273777; Valid 1845.0; StDev 0.8153805745948368; Max. 2.0;

Variable Format: numeric

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f7346121 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 1635.0; Max. 1.0; Mean 0.8581039800283002; StDev 0.23833039849484097; Min. 0.0

Variable Format: numeric

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f7346121 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 0.0; StDev 0.47697084859896166; Max. 1.0; Valid 1845.0; Mean 0.6504065040650392;

Variable Format: numeric

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f7346121 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 0.18081316821038745; Valid 1599.0; Max. 6.558294296264648; Mean 0.009744888644313405; Min. 0.0

Variable Format: numeric

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f7346121 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 0.33486438790999135; Valid 1599.0; Max. 73.0428237915039; StDev 2.9667839639404723; Min. 0.0;

Variable Format: numeric

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f7346121 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 0.05369291663710757; StDev 0.4864841307556533; Max. 14.244711875915527; Valid 1599.0; Min. 0.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:7++BRYEYiYDfanrMamvurA==

f7346121 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 21.0; Valid 1342.0; Mean 1.22727272727272; StDev 2.5767389772798905; Min. 0.0

Variable Format: numeric

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f7346121 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 691.0; StDev 34.27367998092513; Valid 1342.0; Mean 11.137108792846538; Min. 0.0;

Variable Format: numeric

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f7346121 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 0.33707928159597017; Mean 0.1306233062330626; Max. 1.0; Min. 0.0; Valid 1845.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:m6i8nxo1FHjCg0SpOGbWnw==

f7346121 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 1.0; StDev 0.2513857098460086; Mean 0.06775067750677514; Valid 1845.0; Min. 0.0

Variable Format: numeric

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f7346121 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 0.8837110100794304; Mean 0.9014957126805466; Valid 1845.0; Max. 2.8171019554138184; Min. 0.027888750657439232

Variable Format: numeric

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f7346121 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 1424.0; Mean 5.982267089774101; StDev 1.4923484041294708; Min. 3.0370371341705322; Max. 8.987653732299805;

Variable Format: numeric

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f7346121 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 8.362707138061523; StDev 1.5392150383000036; Mean 6.321697559112145; Min. 3.3067493438720703; Valid 1599.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:/axmT9NinwRu4OrW/tAEHA==

f7346121 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 1845.0; Mean 0.03252032520325238; Min. 0.0; Max. 1.0; StDev 0.17742552207267173;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:L30xEOr8aOlCWhERAvPuRA==

f7346121 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 3403.79052734375; Valid 1818.0; Min. -72.44902801513672; StDev 203.9768886984982; Mean 37.78287769933531;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:juH+k467dVrwaqDhKRv3/w==

f7346121 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 664.866943359375; StDev 43.781842289308976; Min. -8.946978569030762; Valid 1818.0; Mean 6.118104467760206;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:khWWpMaIsIY7Sg+WgTNlRw==

f7346121 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. -72.53077697753906; Mean 36.64772979444223; Max. 3400.37158203125; Valid 1818.0; StDev 203.36277824863896

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:6K6svgwhp3lFo0gsaOUthw==

f7346121 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 1818.0; Mean 7.544889151618299; Max. 763.5281372070312; StDev 49.06296729926176; Min. -8.344672203063965;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:HExdWWSxjXVjbaGlPK2Yhg==

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