It matters where you go Outward foreign direct investment and multinational employment growth at home
- Authors
- Debaere, Peter; Lee, Hongshik; Lee, Joonhyung
- Issue Date
- 3월-2010
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
- Keywords
- Multinationals; Foreign direct investment; Location choice; Labor demand
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS, v.91, no.2, pp.301 - 309
- Indexed
- SSCI
AHCI
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
- Volume
- 91
- Number
- 2
- Start Page
- 301
- End Page
- 309
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/116869
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2009.07.002
- ISSN
- 0304-3878
- Abstract
- How does outward foreign direct investment (FDI) affect employment growth of the multinational corporations (MNCs) in the home country? Does the impact of outward investment differ by the level of development of the destination country of the FDI? Using a difference-in-difference approach, we assess the impact of starting to invest in less-advanced countries compared with investing in more-advanced countries. To obtain suitable control groups in each case, we use the propensity score method to select national firms that ex post did not take the investment decisions that we study even though ex ante they would have been equally likely to. We find that moving to less-advanced Countries decreases a company's employment growth rate especially in the short run. On the other hand, moving to more-advanced countries does not consistently affect employment growth in any significant way. Including investment decisions of established multinationals in the estimation somewhat weakens but does not overturn this conclusion. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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