Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/19883 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Göttingen 2007 No. 30
Publisher: 
Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für Entwicklungsländer, Göttingen
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
gender
globalisation
foreign direct investment
labour markets
Indonesia
economic methodology
JEL: 
F02
J81
B41
J31
J16
F21
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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