移民网络促进FDI流入——基于中国经验的分析

Migrant Networks Facilitate Foreign Direct Investment Inflows:Evidence from China

近年我国智力外流现象严重,以致引起国内外众多媒体热逐以及学术界的关注,然而,研究中国不同教育层次移民对FDI流入影响的经验文献仍较缺乏。本文考察了中国在经合组织各国的移民网络是否促进了来源于该国家的FDI流入中国。实证结果显示:当地移民网络为中国FDI的流入提供了重要的推动力;其中,高等教育移民在1%的水平上显著,中、低等教育移民对FDI流入的影响不显著;并且这一推动作用自20世纪90年代转入21世纪后趋于减弱。

China had experienced a remarkable increase in the brain drain during the past decades,which has been the focus of many medias,but there is short of the econometric study on China′s brain drain in the literature.This paper investigates the link between the presence of emigrants in the OECD and China inward FDI from the migrants′ countries of host.The results suggest that China′s FDI inward is positively correlated with the presence of migrants from the origin country.The data further indicate that the relationship between FDI and migration is driven by the presence of migrants with a college education,which is significant at 1% level.This positive role is not significant for migrants with a secondary or primary education.And the role decreases from the 1990s into the 21st century.