Is Foreign Direct Investment “Gender Blind”? Women's Rights as a Determinant of US FDI

Blanton, Robert G.; Blanton, Shannon Lindsey

doi:10.1080/13545701.2015.1006651

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“…Nonetheless, numerous researchers have made theoretic and empirical connections between inward FDI and inequality in developing countries. Likewise, Blanton and Blanton (2015) disaggregate FDI by type to assess women's rights as determinants of FDI. Reuveny and Li (2003), Choi (2006), and Alderson and Nielsen (1999) find a positive 1 There are a number of recent works that have begun to disaggregate FDI.…”

Section: Literature and Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This is the wage premium mechanism, brought about by skill bias. 6 Blanton and Blanton (2015) analyze outward United States FDI toward a wide pool of developing countries, and find that multinationals investing in the service sector disproportionally invest in hosts where women are relatively better educated in general skills but where their economic rights are constrained. Skilled workers are the main beneficiaries of these increases (Blomstr€ om, Kokko, & Zejan, 2000).…”

Section: Fdi Wages and Skill Biasmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…See for example Hecock and Jepsen (2014), who examine the institutional determinants of FDI by sector in 15 Latin American countries. Likewise, Blanton and Blanton (2015) disaggregate FDI by type to assess women's rights as determinants of FDI. However, to our knowledge none have applied sectoral FDI data to patterns of inequality.…”

Section: Literature and Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A number of country case studies also link FDI and other liberalizing reforms to increasing wage differentials and some of these separate workers by skill level. 6 Blanton and Blanton (2015) analyze outward United States FDI toward a wide pool of developing countries, and find that multinationals investing in the service sector disproportionally invest in hosts where women are relatively better educated in general skills but where their economic rights are constrained. There is also ample evidence that multinationals are often more skill-intensive than domestic firms in developing countries.…”

Section: Fdi Wages and Skill Biasmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Foreign direct investment and inequality in developing countries: Does sector matter?

Bogliaccini

Egan

2017

Economics & Politics

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Scholars have studied the relationship between inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and within-country income inequality in cross-national contexts, but have not empirically investigated how FDI in different sectors might affect inequality in different ways. We use error correction models to analyze sectoral FDI data compiled from UNCTAD investment reports in 60 middle-income countries from 1989 to 2010, arguing that FDI in services is more likely to be associated with inequality than FDI in other sectors. We argue that skill biases and changes in employment patterns associated with service sector investments can help explain these findings.

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Section: Literature and Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Fdi Wages and Skill Biasmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Literature and Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Fdi Wages and Skill Biasmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Foreign direct investment and inequality in developing countries: Does sector matter?

Bogliaccini

Egan

2017

Economics & Politics

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“…Det vesentlig nye bidraget til denne studien er at den tar for seg effekten av både politisk regulerte rettigheter og markedsliberalisering på likestilling i arbeidslivet. Globaliseringslitteraturen har undersøkt hvordan en rekke utviklingsmål påvirkes av globalisering, operasjonalisert som nivå av internasjonal handel og utenlandske direkteinvesteringer (FDI) (Blanton & Blanton 2015;Seguino & Grown 2006). Her måler jeg imidlertid ikke bare økonomisk globalisering, men markedsliberalisering som sådan.…”

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Dyvesether¹

2017

NST

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Gender diversity, foreign direct investment spillovers, and productivity: Unraveling the role of female workers in Indonesia

Yasin,

Harianto,

Teguh Sambodo

et al. 2024

Bus Strat Dev

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This study investigates the impact of gender diversity on firm productivity following foreign direct investment (FDI) spillover. Using Indonesian firm‐level datasets from 2011 to 2015, we employ gender spillovers to assess women's distinct contributions to labor spillovers, often manifested through their impacts on productivity, knowledge sharing, and innovation. A fixed‐effects estimator using Driscoll and Kraay's standard errors was employed to deal with cross‐sectional dependence. We first examined the intra‐industry spillover effects of FDI, followed by spatial spillovers, to evaluate the influence of one province's productivity changes on neighboring provinces. Our findings reveal significant gender‐driven FDI spillovers in the spatial dimension but not within the sector. The consistent results across subsamples (impacts on domestic firms, Java‐non‐Java Island, feminization degree, and industrial technology intensity) align with theoretical studies that emphasize the influence of geographical proximity on FDI spillovers. No significant intra‐industry spillover effects were observed. Further exploration of informal channels, possibly mediating spillover effectiveness, is recommended to provide insights into the observed sectoral dynamics.

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Is Foreign Direct Investment “Gender Blind”? Women's Rights as a Determinant of US FDI

Cited by 23 publications

References 40 publications

Foreign direct investment and inequality in developing countries: Does sector matter?

Foreign direct investment and inequality in developing countries: Does sector matter?

Er politikk eller marked nøkkelen til likestilling i arbeidslivet?

Gender diversity, foreign direct investment spillovers, and productivity: Unraveling the role of female workers in Indonesia

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