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Start Over Topic labour market flexibility Publication Year Range Last 10 years Journal economic journal of emerging markets
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1. Growth effect of foreign direct investment: The role of labor market flexibility

Author

Nurnaddia Nordin, Nurhaiza Nordin, Murni Yunus Mawar, and Norzalina Zainudin

Subjects
Labour market flexibility, growth-effect, foreign direct investment, threshold, Economic growth, development, planning, HD72-88, Regional economics. Space in economics, HT388
Abstract

This paper deals with the role of the labor market in moderating the growth-effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries. FDI has developed rapidly and become the main source of economic growth in developing countries. The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of labor market flexibility in mediating the impact of FDI on economic growth in developing countries. Panel threshold regression analysis proposed by Hansen (1999) is employed to assess the hypothesis of the study. Findings/Originality: The results provide the empirical finding of the role labor market in moderating the growth effect of FDI in developed and developing countries and fill this gap by assessing the role of labor market flexibility as an absorptive capacity in FDI-growth link in developing countries.

Published
2019
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2. Growth effect of foreign direct investment: The role of labor market flexibility

Author

Norzalina Zainudin, Murni Yunus Mawar, Nurhaiza Nordin, and Nurnaddia Nordin

Subjects
Flexibility (engineering), LABOUR ECONOMICS, lcsh:HB71-74, media_common.quotation_subject, J01, foreign direct investment, Developing country, Labour market flexibility, lcsh:Economics as a science, Empirical finding, Monetary economics, Foreign direct investment, labour market flexibility, Absorptive capacity, Originality, growth-effect, threshold, Economics, media_common
Abstract

This paper deals with the role of the labor market in moderating the growth-effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries. FDI has developed rapidly and become the main source of economic growth in developing countries. The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of labor market flexibility in mediating the impact of FDI on economic growth in developing countries. Panel threshold regression analysis proposed by Hansen (1999) is employed to assess the hypothesis of the study. Findings/Originality : The results provide the empirical finding of the role labor market in moderating the growth effect of FDI in developed and developing countries and fill this gap by assessing the role of labor market flexibility as an absorptive capacity in FDI-growth link in developing countries.

Published
2019