Growing Against the Background of Colonization? Chinese Labor Market and FDI in a Historical Perspective
This article investigates how the legacy of colonization shapes the impact of inward FDI on employment in the Chinese labor market. The analysis utilizes provincial panel on overall employment and employment in the service sector during 2006-15. We find that inward FDI significantly promotes employment and that this relationship is stronger in regions once colonized by Western countries. Conversely, regions with a legacy of Japanese colonization display a weaker, and even negative, relationship between FDI and employment. These findings are robust to controlling for the length and intensity of colonization, as well as for endogeneity of FDI.
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2018
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Authors: | Wang, Hao ; Fidrmuc, Jan ; Tian, Yunhua |
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Munich : Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo) |
Subject: | foreign direct investment | colonization | human capital | China |
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freely available
Series: | CESifo Working Paper ; 7093 |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Type of publication (narrower categories): | Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Other identifiers: | 1025146301 [GVK] hdl:10419/180355 [Handle] RePec:ces:ceswps:_7093 [RePEc] |
Classification: | F21 - International Investment; Long-Term Capital Movements ; F54 - Colonialism; Imperialism; Postcolonialism ; O15 - Human Resources; Income Distribution; Migration |
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