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

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dc.creator Siegmann, Karin Astrid
dc.date 2007
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:07:18Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:07:18Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19883
dc.identifier ppn:560913427
dc.identifier RePEc:zbw:gdec07:6553
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/19883
dc.description 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.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher
dc.relation Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Göttingen 2007 / Verein für Socialpolitik, Research Committee Development Economics 30
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject F02
dc.subject J81
dc.subject B41
dc.subject J31
dc.subject J16
dc.subject F21
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject gender
dc.subject globalisation
dc.subject foreign direct investment
dc.subject labour markets
dc.subject Indonesia
dc.subject economic methodology
dc.subject Direktinvestition
dc.subject Beschäftigungseffekt
dc.subject Geschlecht
dc.subject Indonesien
dc.title Globalisation, Gender, and Equity: Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Labour Markets in Rural Indonesia
dc.type doc-type:conferenceObject


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