Foreign direct investment, education and wages in Indonesian manufacturing

By R. Lipsey, F. Sjöholm. 2004

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics

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Determinant Factors of FDI Spillovers – What Do We Really Know? (2007, background): “On average, MNEs pay higher wages than domestic firms, among other reasons in order to avoid labor turnover (Lipsey and Sjöholm, 2004).”
Why Do Foreign-Owned Firms Pay More? The Role of On-the-Job Training (2007, positive): “For example, while the studies by Lim (1977) for Malaysian manufacturing, Aitken, Harrison and Lipsey (1997) for Mexico and Venezuela, Lipsey and Sjöholm (2004) for Indonesia, and Te Velde and Morrisey (2003) for five African countries all find that part of the wage differential can be explained by…”
The labor market effects of foreign owned firms (2004, background): “Lipsey and Sjoholm (2004) have information on schooling but in the Indonesian data they use this information is only available in 1996.”
Gender and Modern Supply Chains in Developing Countries (2012, background): “Second, studies on foreign direct investment often find that foreign companies pay higher wages because they use higher levels of technology and that they adopt better labour practices out of reputational concern (Colen et al., 2009; Lipsey and Sjöholm, 2004).”
The Effect of Foreign Acquisition on Employment and Wages: Evidence from Finnish Establishments (2007, background): “1 See, for example, Aitken, Harrison, and Lipsey (1996), Lipsey and Sjöholm (2003, 2004), and Conyon et al. (2002).”
FDI and Income Inequality: Evidence from a Panel of U.S. States (2012, positive): “Figini and Görg (1999) suspect FDI not to be a major source of technological innovation in the United States.”
Roll Out the Red Carpet and They Will Come: Investment Promotion and FDI Inflows† (2011, background): “However, when we exclude countries that reported in the Census that the targeting decision was based on the past success or failure in attracting FDI to the sector, our results hold.”
Transfer Pricing by U.S.-Based Multinational Firms (2008, background): “Lipsey and Sjöholm (2004) find higher wages, higher levels of education and more inputs per worker in foreign-owned plants in Indonesia.”
Does FDI Bring Good Jobs to Host Countries? (2012, background): “It is also possible that due to a lack of knowledge of the local labor market, foreign firms may find it difficult to identify and attract good workers without paying a wage premium (Lipsey and Sjöholm 2004).”
Gifted Kids or Pushy Parents? Foreign Direct Investment and Plant Productivity in Indonesia (2009, background): “See Lipsey and Sjöholm (2004) for a careful analysis of the Indonesian case.”