The Impact of Foreign Direct Investments on Labour Productivity: A review of the Evidence and Implications

Raluca Georgiana Popescu (Robu)
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Raluca Georgiana Popescu (Robu): Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Romania

Romanian Economic Journal, 2010, vol. 13, issue 36, 137-153

Abstract: The paper presents several results concerning the impact of foreign direct investments on labour productivity in different countries. The focus is on the labour productivity differences that exist between the foreign and domestic companies and on the way these differences evolve in the host country. Results show that national companies generally increase their labour productivity due to the technological and managerial competences that they borrow from the foreign companies established in their country and also because: firstly they have to protect themselves from the new competition and secondly they must comply with the growing demand coming from the new investors. Due to their higher labour productivity, foreign firms offer higher wages to their employees. This also determines a growth in the salaries of national companies’ skilled workers. Therefore the wage inequalities and skill differences grow in countries that receive FDI, as to resume the critics. However the overall effect of a growing productivity is most oftenly translated into job creation and regional development.

Keywords: foreign investments; labour productivity; spillovers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F16 F21 F23 J24 O24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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