Determinants of employment growth at MNEs
Subtitle: evidence from Egypt, India, South Africa and Vietnam
By: by Sumon Bhaumik, Saul Estrin, Klaus Meyer.
Contributors: Estrin, Saul.; Meyer, Klaus.
Series: Discussion paper ;; no. 1272; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) ;; no. 1272
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: International business enterprises -- Employees.
Description: "Foreign investors are expected to contribute to economic development through a variety of channels. However, many foreign investment operations are small, and almost insignificant in their impact on the local environment. An important indication of the potential contribution of foreign investors is thus their employment growth. Employees working for, and trained by, a multinational enterprise may become carriers of new technology and business practices. The more employees receive access to new knowledge, the more they in turn may spread the knowledge across the economy, for instance by setting up their own businesses. In this paper, we make a first step in investigating the determinants of this important mediating variable, employment growth. For a dataset covering four diverse emerging economies, we find that wholly-owned FDI operations have higher employment growth, while local industry characteristics moderate the growth effect"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
Notes: Also available in print.
Includes bibliographical references.
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