Koch Dirk-Jan, Schulpen Lau
Ministry of Foreign Affairs the Hague, the Netherlands & the Centre of International Development Issues Nijmegen, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Eval Program Plann. 2018 Jun;68:233-242. doi: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2017.09.002. Epub 2017 Sep 18.
The key research question that this article aims to respond to is: what are the individual-level effects of wages financed by development assistance? Our hypothesis is that these effects are substantial and overall positive, depending on the level of analysis. This article theorizes about unintended wage effects at the individual level, spillover effects, and those at the macro level, yet focuses its research on individual-level effects. The empirical part consists of two case studies. One takes a sample of grants from a donor agency, the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as a starting point, following these grants through the aid chain to determine local staffing costs. The other case study consists of a comparative wage analysis in a developing country, the Democratic Republic of Congo. As this field of research is rather fresh, instead of answering relevant questions with respect to wage effects, this study merely aims to identify questions that merit further research.
发展援助资助的工资在个人层面会产生哪些影响？我们的假设是，这些影响很大且总体上是积极的，具体取决于分析层面。本文从理论上探讨了个人层面的意外工资效应、溢出效应以及宏观层面的效应，但研究重点是个人层面的效应。实证部分包括两个案例研究。一个案例研究以荷兰外交部这个捐助机构提供的赠款样本为起点，跟踪这些赠款在援助链条中的流向，以确定当地人员配置成本。另一个案例研究是在刚果民主共和国这个发展中国家进行的比较工资分析。由于这个研究领域相当新，本研究并非回答与工资效应相关的问题，而只是旨在找出值得进一步研究的问题。
