Labor productivity, wages, nationality, and foreign ownership shares in Thai manufacturing, 1996-2000

Journal of Asian Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 861-884

  Ramstetter, Eric D ^a  

^a Intl Ctr Study of E Asian Devmt   (Japan)

Author keywords

Foreign ownership shares; Labor productivity; Multinational corporations; Nationality; Thai manufacturing; Wages

Indexed keywords

EID: 1342328669     PISSN: 10490078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asieco.2003.10.009     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. Blomström M. (1990). Foreign investment and spillovers. London: Routledge.
2. Buckley P.J. The economic analysis of the multinational enterprise: Reading versus Japan? Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics 26 2 1985 117-124
3. Buckley P.J. & Casson M. (1992). The future of the multinational enterprise (2nd ed.). London: Macmillan.
4. Casson M. (1987). The firm and the market: Studies on the multinational and the scope of the firm. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
5. Caves R.E. (1996). Multinational enterprise and economic analysis (2nd ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
6. Chao C.-C. Yu E. Are wholly foreign-owned enterprises better than joint ventures? Journal of International Economics 40 1/2 1996 225-237
7. Dunning J.H. (1988). Explaining international production. London: Unwin Hyman.
8. Dunning J.H. (1993). Multinational enterprises and the global economy. Workingham, UK: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.
9. Hall B.H. & Cummins C. (1999). Time series processor, user's guide version 4.5. Palo Alto: TSP International.
10. Hill H. (1988). Foreign investment and industrialization in Indonesia. Singapore: Oxford University Press.
11. Hill H. Indonesia's industrial transformation. Part II Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies 26 1990 75-109
12. Hill H. Johns B. The role of foreign investment in developing east Asian countries Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv 121 2 1985 355-381
13. Hymer S.H. (1960). The international operations of national firms: A study of direct foreign investment. PhD dissertation published by MIT Press, 1976.
14. Khanthachai N. Tanmavad K. Boonsiri T. Nisaisook C. & Arttanuchit A. (1987). Technology and skills in Thailand. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
15. Koike K. & Inoki T. (Eds.). (1990). Skill formation in Japan and Southeast Asia. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press.
16. Kojima K. (1978). Direct foreign investment: A Japanese model of multinational business operations. London: Croom Helm; New York: Praeger; Tokyo: Tuttle.
17. Lipsey R.E. & Sjöholm F. (2001). Foreign direct investment and wages in Indonesian manufacturing (Working Paper 2001-2002). Kitakyushu: International Centre for the Study of East Asian Development.
18. Lipsey R.E. & Sjöholm F. (2002). Foreign direct investment and Indonesian manufacturing wages: An analysis with panel data (Working Paper 2002-2029). Kitakyushu: International Centre for the Study of East Asian Development.
19. Manning C. Industrial relations and structural change during the Suharto period: An approaching crisis? Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies 29 1993 51-95
20. Markusen J.R. (1991). The theory of the multinational enterprise: A common analytical framework. In E. D. Ramstetter (Ed.), Direct foreign investment in Asia's developing economies and structural change in the Asia-Pacific region (pp. 11-32). Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
21. Matsuoka A. (2001a). Wages, foreign multinationals, and local plants in Thai manufacturing (Working Paper 2001-2015). Kitakyushu: International Centre for the Study of East Asian Development.
22. Matsuoka A. (2001b). Wage Differentials among local plants and foreign multinationals by foreign ownership share and nationality in Thai manufacturing (Working Paper 2001-2025). Kitakyushu: International Centre for the Study of East Asian Development.
23. Matsuoka A. (2001c). Wage differentials between local plants and foreign multinationals in Thai manufacturing: Industry-level analysis (Working Paper 2001-2026). Kitakyushu: International Centre for the Study of East Asian Development.
24. Moran T. (2001). Parental supervision: The new paradigm for foreign direct investment and development. Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics.
25. National Economic and Social Development Board. (2001). Data on value added and gross output by 5-digit Thai Standard Industrial Classification for 1988-1999, data received by email. Bangkok: National Economic and Social Development Board.
26. National Economic and Social Development Board. (2003). National income of Thailand, 2001 edition. Bangkok: National Economic and Social Development Board.
27. National Statistical Office. (1999). Report of the 1997 industrial census of the whole kingdom. Bangkok: National Statistical Office.
28. National Statistical Office. (2001a). Report of the 1999 industrial survey, whole kingdom. Bangkok: National Statistical Office.
29. National Statistical Office. (2001b). Report of the 2000 manufacturing industry survey, whole kingdom. Bangkok: National Statistical Office.
30. National Statistical Office. (2003). Report of the Labor Force Survey: Whole kingdom. Various issues; data downloaded from the NSO website (http://www.nso.go.th/eng/stat/lfs/lfstab9.htm) in March 2003. Bangkok: National Statistical Office.
31. National Statistical Office. (forthcoming). Report of the 2001 manufacturing industry survey, whole kingdom. Bangkok: National Statistical Office, tables downloaded from www.nso.go.th/eng/stat/manufact/manufact.htm.
32. Naya S. & Ramstetter E.D. (1992). United States direct foreign investment in Asia's developing economies. In United Nations, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) (Ed.), Foreign investment and industrial comparative advantage in East Asia and the Pacific (pp. 51-111). Bangkok: ESCAP (document no. E/ESCAP/1015).
33. Okamoto Y. Sjöholm F. Productivity in the Indonesian automotive industry ASEAN Economic Bulletin 17 1 2000 60-73
34. Ramstetter E.D. (1993). Production technology in foreign and local firms in Thai manufacturing (Discussion Paper No. 8). Nagoya: Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University.
35. Ramstetter E.D. Comparisons of Japanese multinationals and other firms in Thailand's nonoil manufacturing industries ASEAN Economic Bulletin 11 1 1994 36-58
36. Ramstetter E.D. (1998). Export propensities and foreign ownership shares in southeast Asian manufacturing. In F. G. Adams & S. Ichimura (Eds.), East Asian development: Will the East Asian miracle survive? (pp. 171-192). Westport, CN: Praeger.
37. Ramstetter E.D. Comparisons of foreign multinationals and local firms in Asian manufacturing over time Asian Economic Journal 13 3 1999a 163-203
38. Ramstetter E.D. Trade propensities and foreign ownership shares in Indonesian manufacturing in the early 1990s Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies 35 2 1999b 43-66
39. Ramstetter, E. D. (2001a). Labor productivity in foreign multinationals and local plants in Thai manufacturing, 1996 and 1998 (Working Paper 2001-2013). Kitakyushu: International Centre for the Study of East Asian Development.
40. Ramstetter E.D. (2001b). Labor productivity in local plants and foreign multinationals by nationality in Thai manufacturing, 1996 and 1998 (Working Paper 2001-2031). Kitakyushu: International Centre for the Study of East Asian Development.
41. Ramstetter E.D. (2002a). Trade propensities and foreign ownership shares in Thai manufacturing, 1996 (Working Paper 2002-2003). Kitakyushu: International Centre for the Study of East Asian Development.
42. Ramstetter E.D. (2002b). Does technology differ in local plants and foreign multinationals in Thai manufacturing? Evidence from translog production functions for 1996 and 1998 (Working Paper 2002-2004). Kitakyushu: International Centre for the Study of East Asian Development.
43. Ramstetter E.D. (2003a). Foreign multinationals in Thailand after the crisis: The challenge of measuring and interpreting recent trends. In M. Toida & J. Uemura (Eds.), Ajia Kogyoken no Keizai Tenbo 2003 [Projections for Asian Industrializing Region 2003] (pp. 83-170). Tokyo: Institute of Developing Economies.
44. Ramstetter E.D. (2003b). Labor productivity, wages, nationality, and foreign ownership shares in Thai manufacturing, 1996-2000 (Working Paper 2003-2015). Kitakyushu: International Centre for the Study of East Asian Development.
45. Rugman A.M. Internalization as a general theory of foreign direct investment: A re-appraisal of the literature Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv 116 2 1980 365-379
46. Rugman A.M. Internalization is still a general theory of foreign direct investment Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv 121 3 1985 570-575
47. Sjöholm F. (1998). Joint ventures, technology transfer and spillovers: Evidence from Indonesian establishment data. In Economic Planning Agency (Ed.), Foreign direct investment in Asia (pp. 587-616). Papers and proceedings of an international symposium, 22-23 October. Tokyo: Economic Planning Agency.
48. Takii S. (2002). Productivity differentials between local and foreign plants in Indonesian manufacturing, 1995 (Working Paper 2002-2002). Kitakyushu: International Centre for the Study of East Asian Development.
49. Takii S. & Ramstetter E.D. (2000). Foreign multinationals in Indonesian manufacturing 1985-1998: Shares, relative size, and relative labor productivity (Working Paper 2000-2018). Kitakyushu: International Centre for the Study of East Asian Development.
50. Tambunlertchai S. & Ramstetter E.D. (1991). Foreign firms in promoted industries and structural change in Thailand. In E. D. Ramstetter (Ed.), Direct foreign investment in Asia's developing economies and structural change in the Asia-Pacific region (pp. 65-102). Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
51. White H. A heterosckedasticity-consistent covariance matrix estimator and a direct test for heteroskedasticity Econometrica 48 4 1980 817-838
52. Yamashita S. (Ed.). (1992). Transfer of Japanese technology and management to the ASEAN countries. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press.