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外文题目:foreigh direct investment and gendered wages in urban China
出处: Feminist Economics
作者: Elissa Braunstein and Mark Brenner
Foreigh Direct Investment And Gendered Wages In Urban China
Abstract
This paper documents the changing impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on gendered wages in urban China. Combining household survey data from 1995 and 2002 with province-level macro-data, the paper finds that FDI as a proportion of investment has a sizable and statistically significant positive effect on both female and male wages in both years. In 1995, women experienced larger gains from FDI than men, but those gender-based advantages had reversed by 2002, with men experiencing larger wage gains from FDI than women. The paper argues that these results reflect the shift of foreign-invested enterprises to higher productivity and more domestically oriented production, a shift that interacts with gender-based employment segregation to more greatly advantage workers in male-dominated than female-dominated industries. These findings indicate that FDI can have considerable structural effects on economies that reach beyond the particular workers and firms linked to foreign investors.
Introduction
Many economists and policy-makers treat foreign direct investment (FDI) as a premier agent of economic growth in developing countries. Especially since the financial crises of the late 1990s, when short-term capital flows proved to be unreliable and destabilizing, governments have courted FDI as the international capital flow of choice. In addition to directly raising investment and consequent growth, FDI is often lauded for expanding employment opportunities, introducing technological and managerial know-how, and providing valuable access to petitive export markets. As a result, for many developing economies, FDI has e one of the most sought-modities in the global marketplace. Even so, the empirical evidence for a causal connection between FDI and growth, to s