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The Research On The Impact Of Foreign Direct Investment On Employment In Guangdong Province

Posted on:2012-12-14Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:C M LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167330335463619Subject:Regional Economics
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As one of the macro-economic targets, employment is always regarded as roots of the people's livelihood and plays a key role in keeping social stability. As the most densely-populated areas of our country, the employment pressure of Guangdong is rather huge and how to effectively prompt the employment growth always ranks the hot issue. Since reform and opening up, Guangdong has attracted the largest amount of Foreign Direct Investment.The impact on Guangdong's economic growth of FDI has been attached the most importance while the impact of FDI on Guangdong's employment has got little concern. Therefore, it's necessary to do deep research into the impact of FDI on Guangdong's employment so as to effectively make full use of FDI to push employment growth.On the basis of current theories, this paper concretely analyzes the impact of FDI on Guangdong's employment quantity, employment quality and on the employment of Guangdong's different areas. Meanwhile, it uses Time Series Regression Method to respectively analyze the impact of FDI on Guangdong's employment quantity and quality. By city level Panel Data and Fix Effect Modal, the paper tries to analyze the different impacts of FDI on different areas of Guangdong.The empirical results are shown as followed:firstly, FDI in Guangdong have direct and indirect impacts on employment quantity. Because of the influence of the entry pattern, motivation, lines and mode of use of FDI, the direct impact is always changing and the results show that the ability of which FDI directly absorb Guangdong's labor is now declining. While the indirect impact is becoming increasing important through the transmit channels of up-grading of industry, domestic investments, international trade and technical spillover. Secondly, the improvement of Guangdong's employment by FDI consists of salary, welfare, development of human resource and Optimization of employment structures. From the aspect of salary, this paper empirically proves that FDI effectively have improved Guangdong's employment quality. Thirdly, FDI have different impacts on different areas of Guangdong. It has an obvious impact on pushing the employment growth of the Pearl River Delta while having negative effects on Guangdong's other areas. Finally, based on the previous results, this paper puts forward some suggestions how to make full use of FDI to prompt Guangdong's employment growth.
Keywords/Search Tags:Foreign Direct Investment, Guangdong Employment, Normative Analysis, Empirical Research
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