Globalisation, Gender, and Equity: Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Labour Markets in Rural Indonesia

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This study assesses the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on gendered labour markets in rural Indonesia. It focuses on the gender composition of the workforce, female and male workers? employment conditions and gender wage inequality. Th e research strategy of ?between-methods triangulation? is chosen, denoting the combination of quantitative and qualitative types of data generation and analysis. Two underlying mechanisms have been identified. A ?cost eff ect? associated with transnational corporations? (TNCs?) greater orientation towards the world market is the preferential recruitment of, on average, lower paid female workers. In light of global competitive cost considerations, this appears as a rational strategy for TNCs. Conversely, foreign fi rms? advanced technological endowments relative to domestic companies require a well-educated workforce with technical skills. In light of these perspectives, gender gaps in education and, on average, women?s weaker labour market attachment disadvantage female workers? employment in TNCs. Both eff ects are mediated by a ?reproductive constraint?. Th is refers to the asymmetric distribution of reproductive obligations between female and male household members, whereby female input into the domestic economy is more demanding relative to that of males.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Göttingen 2007 ; No. 30

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; International Economic Order and Integration ; Labor Standards: Working Conditions ; Economic Methodology ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials ; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination ; International Investment; Long-term Capital Movements
• Subject: gender ; globalisation ; foreign direct investment ; labour markets ; Indonesia ; economic methodology ; Direktinvestition ; Beschäftigungseffekt ; Geschlecht ; Indonesien

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Siegmann, Karin Astrid
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für Entwicklungsländer
• (where): Göttingen
• (when): 2007

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19883
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