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

Hao Wang, Jan Fidrmuc and Yunhua Tian

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Foreign direct investment; Colonization; Human capita; lChina (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-09
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (7)

Published in International Review of Economics & Finance, 2020, 69, pp.1018-1031. ⟨10.1016/j.iref.2018.12.010⟩

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
Journal Article: Growing against the background of colonization? Chinese labor market and FDI in a historical perspective (2020)
Working Paper: Growing Against the Background of Colonization? Chinese Labor Market and FDI in a Historical Perspective (2018)
Working Paper: Growing against the background of colonization? Chinese labor market and FDI in a historical perspective (2018)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03128958

DOI: 10.1016/j.iref.2018.12.010

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().