strikes: This is an adapted and simplified version of the dataset used...

strikesR Documentation

This is an adapted and simplified version of the dataset used in Robertson, G. B., and E. Teitelbaum. 2011. "Foreign Direct Investment, Regime Type, and Labor Protest in Developing Countries." American Journal of Political Science 55 (3): 665–677.

Description

This is an adapted and simplified version of the dataset used in Robertson, G. B., and E. Teitelbaum. 2011. "Foreign Direct Investment, Regime Type, and Labor Protest in Developing Countries." American Journal of Political Science 55 (3): 665–677.

Usage

strikes

Format

A data frame with 1507 rows and 10 variables:

isocode

Numeric ISO code for the country

iso3c

3-letter ISO code for the country

year

Year

flows.ln

Natural log of FDI flows (lagged)

population.ln

Natural log of the population

polity2

Polity score

disputes

Number of industrial strikes

any_dispute

Any binary strike in a year

gdp_grth

GDP growth

gdp_pc

GDP per capita

Source

Robertson, G. B., and E. Teitelbaum. 2011. "Foreign Direct Investment, Regime Type, and Labor Protest in Developing Countries." American Journal of Political Science 55 (3): 665–677.


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