FOREIGN CAPITAL AND LABOR PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH IN CHILE: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS

This paper examines the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on labor productivity growth in Chile during the 1960-2001 period. Using co-integration analysis, the paper estimates an error correction model (ECM) that suggests that increases in FDI flows had a positive and significant effect on l...

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Autor: RAMÍREZ, MIGUEL D.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2009
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Problemas del Desarrollo. Revista Latinoamericana de Economía
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/7563
Acceso en línea:https://www.probdes.iiec.unam.mx/index.php/pde/article/view/7563
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:MODELO DE CORRECCION DEL ERROR (MDE)
CRITERIO DE INFORMACION AKAIKE (CIA)
CRITERIO SCHWARTZ BAYESIAN (CSB)
error correction model
ECM
akaike information criterion
AIC
and Schwartz bayesian criterion (SBC)
modèle de correction d’erreur
MCE
critère d’information Akaike
et critère Schwartz Bayesian
CSB
modelo de correção de erros
critério Akaike de informação
CAI
e critério Schwartz Bayesian
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Sumario:This paper examines the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on labor productivity growth in Chile during the 1960-2001 period. Using co-integration analysis, the paper estimates an error correction model (ECM) that suggests that increases in FDI flows had a positive and significant effect on labor productivity growth. The lagged public investment variable, as well as outward-oriented policies and economic crises (captured by dummies) were also found to have the expected sign and to be statistically significant. The error correction terms are negative and statistically significant, suggesting that contemporaneous shocks to the longrun labor productivity relationship are corrected in subsequent periods.