Titre :

Growing against the background of colonization? Chinese labor market and FDI in a historical perspective

Auteur(s) :

Wang, Hao [Auteur]
Fidrmuc, Jan [Auteur]
Lille économie management - UMR 9221 [LEM]
Tian, Yunhua [Auteur]

Titre de la revue :

International Review of Economics & Finance

Pagination :

1018-1031

Date de publication :

2020-09

ISSN :

1059-0560

Mot(s)-clé(s) en anglais :

Foreign direct investment
Colonization
Human capita
lChina

Discipline(s) HAL :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Economies et finances

Résumé en anglais : [en]

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 ...
Lire la suite >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 from 2006 to 2015. 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.Lire moins >

Langue :

Anglais

Vulgarisation :

Non

Collections :

• Lille Économie Management (LEM) - UMR 9221

Source :

Harvested from HAL