Abstract

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.

摘要

本研究通过考虑不同的工作特征和地理边界，调查外国公司工资的增加是否会导致印度尼西亚制造企业的全要素生产率 (TFP) 增长。使用系统 GMM，结果表明，平均而言，行业内生产性工作的工资溢出对 TFP 产生积极影响，而非生产性工作的工资溢出产生负面影响。此外，一个省内生产岗位和非生产岗位的工资溢出不影响印尼制造企业的全要素生产率。这些结果表明，当外国公司提高工资时，从事生产性工作的员工比从事非生产性工作的员工对增加全要素生产率的贡献更大。这种贡献发生在一个行业内，而不是在一个省内。对于政府来说，