Human rights violations by companies are at the core of the European Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (CSDDD) which is an important piece of EU legislation that will require companies in the EU and third countries to conduct due diligence on environment and human rights in their operations, subsidiaries and value chains.In light of these new regulatory scenarios, it appears useful to understand the exposure of multinational companies in the EU context to violations of human rights. One of the important issues is to quantify, in terms of number and severity, the phenomenon and measure the economic costs of such violations. The objective of this research will be to quantify these impacts, considering a sample of large EU multinational companies and a time period of 20 years (2000-2020).

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University of Pisa is a lively working environment. The candidate will be working in close connection with scholars from REMARC (https://remarc.ec.unipi.it/) and from the Horizon Europe project "Rebalance" (https://rebalanceproject.org/). They will be able to exploit connections and opportunities at UIL in Rome and at the European level with the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI); European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC); International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), and the Trade Union Advisory Committee (TUAC) to the OECD.