外商直接投资会影响工资不平等吗？一个实证研究【外文翻译】.doc

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外文题目:Does Foreign Direct Investment Affect Wage Inequality?An Empirical Investigation
出处: Discussion Paper No. 2336,September 2006
作者: Paolo Figini and Holger Görg
原文:
Does Foreign Direct Investment Affect Wage Inequality?An Empirical Investigation
1. Introduction
When investigating the impact of the increasing importance of foreign direct investment (FDI) for host countries, most research concerns itself with effects on efficiency or, more specifically, productivity and economic growth at either the macro or the micro level. While it is generally found that FDI can have positive growth and, hence, efficiency effects, what is generally neglected is the issue of equality. However, not least the publication of books such as Naomi Klein’s (2000) No logo or Stiglitz’s (2002) Globalization and its discontents has brought this issue back to the forefront of public and policy attention. While FDI may bring benefits to the economy in which they locate, it is by no means clear whether everyone will benefit to the same extent or indeed whether some will be better off while others will suffer from this.
This paper attempts to tackle this issue by providing prehensive analysis of the effect of FDI on inequality in the receiving country. Inequality in this paper is understood as wage inequality. In other words, we attempt to investigate whether FDI benefits everyone in the same way in terms of wages–hence, being neutral with respect to inequality, or whether it helps to alleviate, or actually worsens, inequality in wages.
The increase in e and wage inequality in many countries has been much discussed in the recent economic literature. There is supporting evidence, for both industrialised and developing countries, for the increase in inequality between skilled and unskilled workers, as well as for skill premia for workers with higher education. Wage is the main source of personal e for the great majority of people and its distribution has therefore import