@techreport{Hemmer2005Foreign,
abstract = {? This paper discusses the impact of FDI on income inequality.
? The theoretical ways in which FDI might influence income inequality between
countries as well as within a given country are discussed, with special attention also
given to employment generation effects.
? Revisiting previous research we show that significant effects of FDI are hard to find in
more recent work, with older studies showing mixed results.
? Re-estimating the prominent study of Tsai (1995) with newer data we augment it by
allowing for FDI-influences on inequality by region, income level, and export focus.
? We find no overall impact of FDI on inequality. Also region and income differentiated
estimations show no country group-specific impacts of FDI. Only in the export focusdifferentiated
estimations we find some evidence of an inequality increasing impact of
FDI in countries primarily exporting primary goods (without fuel).
? FDI thus do not have significant implications for income distribution in general.},
author = {Hans-Rimbert Hemmer and Ralf Kr\"{u}ger and Jennifer Seith},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {330; Direktinvestition; Verteilungswirkung; Einkommensverteilung; Rohstoffressourcen; Export; Sch\"{a}tzung; Entwicklungsl\"{a}nder},
language = {eng},
number = {32},
title = {Foreign Direct Investment and Income Inequality revisited},
type = {Entwicklungs\"{o}konomische Diskussionsbeitr\"{a}ge / Universit\"{a}t Giessen, Professur f\"{u}r Volkswirtschaftslehre und Entwicklungsl\"{a}nderforschung},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/22388},
year = {2005}
}
