An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of FDI on Employment in China

摘要：

Encouraged by the countrys ongoing policy reforms, Foreign Direct Investment is flowing rapidly into China. This paper investigates the impacts of Foreign Direct Investment inflows on Chinas macro employment levels. It uses annual data for the period 1993-2006, to estimate a regression model for Foreign Direct Investment and Chinas total employment, employment in primary industry, employment in secondary industry, employment in tertiary industry, respectively. Analysis indicates that Foreign Direct Investment has a significant impact on the level of employment in China. The results provide insights for policy formulation and implementation.

关键词： Foreign Direct Investment employment China

作者: Xie Xiaoqinq Wayne Dwyer

作者单位: College of Politics and Law China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) Wuhan, China School of Economics and Finance University of Western Sydney Sydney, Australia

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: The 4th International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing(第四届IEEE无线通信、网络技术及移动计算国际会议)

会议地点: 大连

会议语种:英文

页码: 1-5

在线出版日期: 2008-10-12（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）