The effects of FDI Liberalization on structural transformation and demographic change: Evidence from China

How does foreign direct investment (FDI) liberalization shape structural transformation and demographic change in developing countries? We provide new evidence on this question using five waves of Chinese census data between 1990 and 2015, exploiting quasi-exogenous variation in FDI liberalization i...

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Autores principales: Erten, Bilge, Leight, Jessica, Zhu, Lianming
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Publicado: Institute of Labor Economics 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/140366
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description How does foreign direct investment (FDI) liberalization shape structural transformation and demographic change in developing countries? We provide new evidence on this question using five waves of Chinese census data between 1990 and 2015, exploiting quasi-exogenous variation in FDI liberalization induced by multiple waves of regulatory relaxation. We find that counties more exposed to liberalization experience a relative shift out of agricultural employment into manufacturing and services for both men and women. Exposure to FDI liberalization also reduces the probability of marriage, and induces a decline in the birth rate and the share of women with children.
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spelling CGSpace1403662024-10-25T08:06:20Z The effects of FDI Liberalization on structural transformation and demographic change: Evidence from China Erten, Bilge Leight, Jessica Zhu, Lianming data analysis data gender transformation developing countries men censuses foreign investment women How does foreign direct investment (FDI) liberalization shape structural transformation and demographic change in developing countries? We provide new evidence on this question using five waves of Chinese census data between 1990 and 2015, exploiting quasi-exogenous variation in FDI liberalization induced by multiple waves of regulatory relaxation. We find that counties more exposed to liberalization experience a relative shift out of agricultural employment into manufacturing and services for both men and women. Exposure to FDI liberalization also reduces the probability of marriage, and induces a decline in the birth rate and the share of women with children. 2023-04-01 2024-03-14T12:09:25Z 2024-03-14T12:09:25Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/140366 en Open Access Institute of Labor Economics Erten, Bilge; Leight, Jessica; and Zhu, Lianming. 2023. The effects of FDI liberalization on structural transformation and demographic change: Evidence from China. IZA Discussion Paper No. 16094. https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/16094/the-effects-of-fdi-liberalization-on-structural-transformation-and-demographic-change-evidence-from-china
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transformation
developing countries
men
censuses
foreign investment
women
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Leight, Jessica
Zhu, Lianming
The effects of FDI Liberalization on structural transformation and demographic change: Evidence from China
title The effects of FDI Liberalization on structural transformation and demographic change: Evidence from China
title_full The effects of FDI Liberalization on structural transformation and demographic change: Evidence from China
title_fullStr The effects of FDI Liberalization on structural transformation and demographic change: Evidence from China
title_full_unstemmed The effects of FDI Liberalization on structural transformation and demographic change: Evidence from China
title_short The effects of FDI Liberalization on structural transformation and demographic change: Evidence from China
title_sort effects of fdi liberalization on structural transformation and demographic change evidence from china
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data
gender
transformation
developing countries
men
censuses
foreign investment
women
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