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Foreign direct investment and gendered wages in urban China.
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Feminist Economics . Jul/Oct2007, Vol. 13 Issue 3/4, p213-237. 25p. 4 Charts. - Publication Year :
- 2007
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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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *FOREIGN investments
*WAGES
*GENDER
*LABOR
*INVESTMENTS
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13545701
- Volume :
- 13
- Issue :
- 3/4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Feminist Economics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 26055641
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13545700701439432