Foreign Direct Investment and Wages in Indonesian Manufacturing / Robert E. Lipsey, Fredrik Sjoholm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lipsey, Robert E.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Sjoholm, Fredrik.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w8299.

NBER working paper series no. w8299

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2001.

Summary:

This paper asks two types of questions. One is about the behavior of foreign-owned firms in Indonesian labor markets and the other is about the effect of the presence of foreign-owned firms on Indonesian wages. We ask first whether foreign-owned plants pay a higher price for labor, that is, more than locally-owned plants for workers of a given quality, as we can measure it. We then ask whether foreign-owned plants pay a higher price for labor given the characteristics of the plants such as their size, industry, and location. The answer is that foreign firms do pay a higher price, and even a higher price given their plant characteristics. The second set of questions is whether a larger presence of foreign-owned plants results in higher wages in locally-owned plants and overall. Higher foreign presence leads to higher wages in locally-owned plants. Since the foreign plants also pay higher wages than locally-owned ones, the two factors together mean that higher foreign presence raises the general wage level in a province and industry.

Notes:

Print version record

May 2001.