Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/223864 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 13422
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We use a plant level survey to identify interactions between domestic plants and foreign direct investment (FDI) in Ethiopia's manufacturing sector. One third of Ethiopian plants are linked to FDI through labor sharing, supply chains and competition. Technology upgrading most commonly occurs as a result of competition in output markets and observation and imitation of FDI in the same line of business. Other benefits include enhanced managerial practices and knowledge about exporting. Spillovers from FDI are identified by comparing changes in total factor productivity (TFP) among domestic plants in districts where a large greenfield foreign plant produces and districts where FDI in the same industry and around the same time was licensed but not yet operational. Over the four years starting with the year of the FDI opening, the TFP of domestic plants is 11 percent higher in treated districts, employment in domestic plants increases and more domestic plants open.
Subjects: 
Foreign Direct Investment
local economic development
productivity and technology
JEL: 
F21
O18
D24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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