ABSTRACT

The main objective of this paper is to investigate the extent to which inward foreign direct investment (FDI) in advanced business services (ABS) – a result of so-called offshoring of white collar jobs – contributes to the structural change of employment in regions of host economies. We use a fixed-effect regression model based on cross-regional panel data for Hungary and Poland for the period between 2005 and 2014. Our findings show that ABS FDI carries structural impacts: employment in foreign-owned firms increases the share of the tertiary sector in a region both directly and indirectly through inducing other tertiary activities as well.

摘要

本文的主要目的是调查高级商业服务 (ABS) 中的外来直接投资 (FDI)——所谓的白领工作离岸外包的结果——在多大程度上促进了该地区的就业结构变化东道国经济体。我们使用基于匈牙利和波兰 2005 年至 2014 年跨区域面板数据的固定效应回归模型。我们的研究结果表明，ABS FDI 具有结构性影响：外资企业的就业增加了第三产业的份额在一个地区直接或间接地通过诱导其他第三级活动。