GEAR Group members Ángela
García-Alaminos, Mateo Ortiz, Guadalupe Arce, and Jorge Zafrilla have recently
published a new research article in Economic Systems Research.
The paper, entitled
“Reassembling social defragmented responsibilities: the indecent labour
footprint of US multinationals overseas”, presents news insights about the social
impacts embodied in multinational firms’ global value chains. Combining a socially extended MRIO model with three social
indicators (forced labour, fatal and nonfatal occupational injuries) from the
indecent labour database developed by Ángela García-Alaminos, we find that the activities of US
multinationals foreign affiliates show increasing trends between 2009 and 2013
on indecent labour, contributing with 1.1%–1.3% of the global cases. United
States affiliates located in India, China, and Brazil show the highest ratios
per unit of value-added.
This
work was awarded the “6th Emilio Fontela Research Prize in
Input-Output Analysis” by the Hispanic-American Input-Output Society (SHAIO) in
September 2019.
We hope you enjoy
it!
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