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cOunTRIes kRIshnA chAITAnyA vADlAmAnnATI* A much-debated issue regarding globalization is whether it translates into free Association and collective bargaining (fAcb) rights for workers. The author uses Dreher’s (2006) globalization index, which gauges globalization on economic, social, and political dimensions, and mosley’s (2011) fAcb rights index, which measures 37 aspects of both practices and laws violations of fAcb rights, to examine the impact of globalization on fAcb rights of workers. using panel data for 142 developing countries during the 1985–2002 period, the author finds mixed evidence of the impact of globalization on fAcb rights, controlling for a host of relevant factors, including endogene-ity concerns using a system-gmm approach. while social globaliza-tion is associated with both strengthening laws and enforcing the laws to protect fAcb rights, this is not the case for political globaliza-tion. In addition, the positive effect of economic globalization on fAcb rights is sensitive to estimation specifications. The 2008 global economic downturn has heightened concerns over the social effects of globalization, particularly the impact of globalization on labor rights (see International labor Organization [IlO] 2009; baccaro 2010). Over the years, prominent academic scholars such as bhagwati (1996, 1999, 2004) and sen (1999) have argued that the global integration process has resulted in increased prosperity and an improvement in labor rights. They, among others (such as kucera 2002; flanagan 2006), argued that *krishna chaitanya vadlamannati is a Research fellow at the norwegian university of science and Technology (nTnu). I thank layna mosley for making the fAcb rights index data available. I than