Effects of Foreign Direct Investment and Human Capital on Labour Productivity: Evidence from Vietnam

Le, Nguyen H.; Duy, Luong Vinh Quoc; Ngọc, Bùi Hoàng

doi:10.13106/jafeb.2019.vol6.no3.123

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“…(3) Efficiency. Enterprises engaged in agricultural foreign investment need to hire local labor [47], and the effective matching of labor supply and demand is an important condition for the low-cost expansion of efficiency-seeking enterprises [48]. We use the indicator of labor market efficiency to measure the labor costs of investment.…”

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The Potential of Absorbing Foreign Agricultural Investment to Improve Food Security in Developing Countries

Jiang

Chen

2020

Sustainability

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Global food security has been in a severe condition in recent years, especially in developing countries. These countries need sufficient investment to promote their agricultural development. At the same time, the increasing foreign investment in agriculture has aroused widespread concern in the international community. It is controversial whether it is conducive to the host country’s agriculture and social development. In order to study whether developing countries can promote food security by absorbing adequate and effective foreign agricultural investment, we use principal component analysis and select 135 countries (regions) as samples to construct an indicator system from three aspects: investment demand, investment environment and investment motivation. We use cross-section data consisting of the values of the most recent year updated for each indicator. The results show that the demand for foreign investment in developing countries is strong, but overall, it does not have much investment appeal and the investment environment is bad. There is a gap between the expectations and realities in societies in each developing country in terms of the introduction of foreign agricultural investment to promote food security. Governance and capacity building should be strengthened to reconcile their investment needs with investors’ motives. Meanwhile, more inclusive rules for foreign agricultural investment will help it to play its due role in developing countries.

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The Potential of Absorbing Foreign Agricultural Investment to Improve Food Security in Developing Countries

Jiang

Chen

2020

Sustainability

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“…However, some administrators and economics researchers are not advocating for FDI. A popular reason is submitted that FDI causes pollution (Abdouli & Hammami, 2017;Behera & Dash, 2017;Kivyiro & Arminen, 2014;Liu et al, 2018), exhausts natural resources (Markusen & Venables, 1999;Pazienza, 2015), and destroys the development of domestic enterprises (Le et al, 2019). Prebisch (1968) argues that the target countries of FDI receive very few benefits, due to most benefits are transferred to the home country.…”

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“…The majority of administrators and economic researchers are persuaded that FDI leads to increased physical capital accumulation, encourages competitiveness, boosts household consumption, and creates several new jobs and less unemployment. It is inevitable for domestic enterprises to develop new technologies and new products (Abdouli & Hammami, 2017;Batten & Vo, 2009;Le et al, 2019;Markusen & Venables, 1999;Ngoc & Hai, 2019).…”

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Do Foreign Direct Investment, Energy Consumption and Urbanization Enhance Economic Growth in Six ASEAN Countries?

Long¹

2020

JAFEB

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The neoclassical economic supporters have suggested that foreign direct investment and raw material (e.g., coal, electricity, gas, and oil) are critical economic growth inputs. Few previous studies have analyzed the relationship between foreign direct investment and energy consumption on economic growth. However, existing studies usually have applied the frequentist inference. The limitation of the frequentist inference is that, if the coefficient of the independent variable is not yet significant, then conclusions might be unreliable. By applying the Bayesian approach, the main aim of this study is to revisit the impact of foreign direct investment, electricity consumption, and urbanization on economic growth in six ASEAN countries from 1980 to 2016. The obtained outcome shows that the impact of electricity consumption is evident and positive on economic growth in both frequentist and Bayesian inferences. However, the influence of foreign direct investment is not identified by frequentist inference, while Bayesian inference provides evidence that foreign direct investment is a moderately positive impact on economic growth. The empirical result from Bayesian inference contributes to the literature on foreign direct investment modeling and could be of significant importance for a more efficient foreign direct investment attracting and achieve sustainability in the long-term.

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“…Vietnam, being a developing country in South East Asia, has enjoyed sustained economic growth since 1986 following the adoption of Đổi Mới (Renovation). The country has received an astronomical amount of attention from foreign companies (Le et al, 2019). Scholars mentioned that almost all companies in Vietnam, both foreignbased and local, have already been struggling to conquer this issue of talent (Vo, 2009;Vo & Hannif, 2012;Tran & Truong, 2017).…”

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The relationship between talent management and talented employees’ performance: empirical investigation in the Vietnamese banking sector

Dang¹,

Nguyen²,

Ha³

2020

10.5267/j.msl

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Although managers of various banks and institutions in Vietnam have established several policies to attract talented employees, talent management is still an emerging issue. This gives rise for a need of an empirical study which explores the relationship between talent management (TM) practices and talented employees' performance. Hence this study fills the gap by applying the survey technique in the quantitative method with the main objective of examining the relationship between TM and the four dimensions of employee performance; namely task, contextual, adaptive and counterproductive through affective commitment. A total of 375 questionnaires was targeted for distribution to talented employees in 10 banks in Vietnam. The findings show that although TM practices positively support employee performance (task, contextual and adaptive), they also reduce counterproductive behaviours. Also, affective commitment partially mediates the relationship between TM and the four dimensions of employee performance. The result of the study has some practical implications for managers and banks implementing and intending to implement TM practices. Managers and banks can design and implement TM practices with the aim to increase positive employee performance behaviours, reduce counterproductive behaviours and benefit from positive affective commitment through the implementation of TM practices.

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Effects of Foreign Direct Investment and Human Capital on Labour Productivity: Evidence from Vietnam

Cited by 32 publications

References 52 publications

The Potential of Absorbing Foreign Agricultural Investment to Improve Food Security in Developing Countries

The Potential of Absorbing Foreign Agricultural Investment to Improve Food Security in Developing Countries

Do Foreign Direct Investment, Energy Consumption and Urbanization Enhance Economic Growth in Six ASEAN Countries?

The relationship between talent management and talented employees’ performance: empirical investigation in the Vietnamese banking sector

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