Foreign Direct Investment, Education, and Wages in Indonesian Manufacturing
(2004) In Journal of Development Economics 73(1). p.415-422- Abstract
- This paper examines whether the higher wages paid by foreign-owned manufacturing plants than by domestically owned plants, typical of most countries, represents a higher price for labor. That is, does it reflect a higher price for workers of a given quality, as represented by the level of education? We then ask whether foreign-owned plants pay a higher price for labor given the characteristics of the plants. Foreign-owned firms are found to pay a higher price for labor of a given educational level than domestically owned ones. Only a part of the difference is associated with plant characteristics, rather than ownership.
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- author
- Lipsey, Robert E and Sjöholm, Fredrik LU
- publishing date
- 2004-02
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- FDI, Wages, Indonesia, F2, J3
- in
- Journal of Development Economics
- volume
- 73
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 8 pages
- publisher
- Elsevier
- external identifiers
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- scopus:0942289029
- ISSN
- 0304-3878
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2002.12.004
- language
- English
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- 9a1a0e41-6bfa-42d9-8674-ff0307d20041
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