Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/22388 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Entwicklungsökonomische Diskussionsbeiträge No. 32
Publisher: 
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Professur für Volkswirtschaftslehre und Entwicklungsländerforschung, Gießen
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.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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