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The Relationship Between Fdi And Employment In China's Manufacturing Industry, Ruoheng Wang
The Relationship Between Fdi And Employment In China's Manufacturing Industry, Ruoheng Wang
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
China has achieved rapid economic growth after reforming and opening up, becoming the second largest economy after the United States. At the same time, China began to attract foreign direct investment, and the scale of foreign direct investment has been becoming larger and larger. It's obvious that FDI has played a crucial role in promoting China's economic growth. But China is a country with a big population, the employment problem is the most direct and realistic problem. Although overall employment is increasing in China, the speed of employment growth in the manufacturing industry is very low. After all, the manufacturing …
Role Of Global Production Networks On Development Of Automotive Industry In Selected Asean Countries, Wachara Jongkraijak
Role Of Global Production Networks On Development Of Automotive Industry In Selected Asean Countries, Wachara Jongkraijak
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
This paper investigates the impact of Global Production Networks (GPNs) on the industrial development in 3 aspects; domestic value added, labor productivity, and export performance, employing Trade in Value Added database at the country-sector level from Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The estimation is based on pooled time series, cross section and period fixed effect covering Automotive industry in 4 selected ASEAN countries; Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Philippines from 1995 to 2016. The results suggest that Thailand can exploit the benefit from GPNs through task specialization and economies of scales, at the same time expanding the domestic capacity. …
Role Of E-Commerce On Trading Sector In China, Jinyi Li
Role Of E-Commerce On Trading Sector In China, Jinyi Li
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
E-commerce is rapidly developing along with the development of information technology in China. This paper is aimed at analyzing the contribution of E-commerce on the trading sector in China and estimating the macroeconomic and sectoral impact of E-commerce respectively by using fixed effect panel data based on the data from seven selected regions in China over the period of 2008-2016. The study found that E-commerce plays a significant and positive role in the economic growth at either macroeconomic level or sectoral level. Every 1 percent increase in E-commerce's sale leads to an increase of 0.54 percent in the output in …
Impact Of Trade And Fdi Openness On Wages In The Manufacturing Sector In China, Qianyi Chen
Impact Of Trade And Fdi Openness On Wages In The Manufacturing Sector In China, Qianyi Chen
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of trade openness and foreign direct investment (FDI) on wages in China using a panel data set of 27 manufacturing sectors over the period of 2001 to 2016. The effects are separated into three groups: total industries, capital-intensive industries and labor-intensive industries. First, by comparing the determinants of three groups of industries, it shows that the impact of trade openness on wages only significant and positive in labor-intensive industries while the impact of FDI on wages is significantly positive in both capital-intensive industries and labor-intensive industries. Second, in the case …
Assessing Impacts Of Fta In Thailand With Special Emphasis On Trade Creation And Trade Diversion, Sawasdee Charoenchang
Assessing Impacts Of Fta In Thailand With Special Emphasis On Trade Creation And Trade Diversion, Sawasdee Charoenchang
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
This paper uses ex-post gravity analysis to examine whether Thailand's 12 effective free trade agreements cause trade creation or trade diversion effect. The sample of the study covers 43 countries over the period of 1991-2016. The model is specified with the aim to obtain unbiased estimates of three FTA dummy variables, representing trades within and outside the trade blocs. This study is able to analyze only 7 out of 12 total FTAs due to multicollinearity problem. The results of this study show that AFTA has trade creation effects on international trade of Thailand with little diversion effects on exports. We …
An Empirical Study Of Human Capital On Economic Growth: An Investigation Using Three Indices Of Human Capital, Shan Shan Fu
An Empirical Study Of Human Capital On Economic Growth: An Investigation Using Three Indices Of Human Capital, Shan Shan Fu
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
This research reexamines the augmented Solow's growth model to find the relationship between human capital and economic growth by using three different proxies for human capital. The first proxy of human capital is the proportion of labor force with secondary education that has been widely used in many studies. PISA score is the second proxy to human capital. It is regarded as being quality of education because this standardized test score could directly reflect the cognitive ability of individuals. The third proxy is the human capital index constructed by Penn's World Table 9.0 that included both quantitative and qualitative aspects …
The Volatility Comovement Among Stock Markets In East Asian Countries, Weijie Yu
The Volatility Comovement Among Stock Markets In East Asian Countries, Weijie Yu
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
Using daily indices for several East Asian and Asian emerging stock markets from 5 January 1995 to 31 December 2018, this study investigates the volatility comovement of the stock market returns in using the DCC-MGARCH model. The empirical results depict that the volatility comovement among East Asian stock markets have increased in recent years. Moreover, this correlation is stronger in the developed markets of Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea. Volatility comovement across emerging countries, namely, China, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Philippines, has also increased. This study also examines the volatility spillover effects in East Asia at different stages …