Abstract
Policymakers often look for ways to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) by multinational corporations (MNCs). This paper estimates the impact of a programme, Costa Rica Provee, that seeks to increase backward linkages between small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and MNCs in Costa Rica. The impacts were measured by reference to real average wages, employment demand and the probability of exporting, using a combination of fixed effects and propensity score matching with panel data on treated and untreated firms for 2001-2011. Programme beneficiaries evinced higher average wages, labour demand and export probabilities than untreated firms, with dose and duration also having a major influence.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 98-123 |
| Number of pages | 26 |
| Journal | Cepal Review |
| Issue number | 123 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 2017 |
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth -
SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure -
SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
Keywords
- Case studies
- Costa Rica
- Employment
- Exports
- Foreign direct investment
- Medium enterprises
- Small enterprises
- Transnational corporations
- Wages
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