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The effects of wage spillover from foreign firms on total factor productivity: do job characteristics matter?

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  • Dadang Ramdhan

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This study investigates whether an increase in wages of foreign firms generates the total factor of productivity (TFP) growth of Indonesian manufacturing firms by considering different job characteristics and geographical boundaries. Using system GMM, the result shows that on average the wage spillover in production jobs within an industry positively affects the TFP, while the wage spillover in non-production jobs contributes negatively. Moreover, the wage spillover in production jobs and non-production jobs within a province do not affect the TFP of Indonesian manufacturing firms. These results indicate that employees in production jobs have larger contributions to increasing TFP than those in non-production jobs when foreign firms increase their wages. Such contributions occur within an industry, not within a province. For the Government, the different contributions to the TFP of firms from wage spillovers in production and non-production jobs indicate the importance of skill mobility to the national economy.

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  • Dadang Ramdhan, 2023. "The effects of wage spillover from foreign firms on total factor productivity: do job characteristics matter?," Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 28(2), pages 766-785, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rjapxx:v:28:y:2023:i:2:p:766-785
    DOI: 10.1080/13547860.2021.1940692
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