Multinational firms and impacts on employment, trade, and technology : new perspectives for a new century / edited by Robert E. Lipsey and Jean-Louis Mucchielli
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Introduction; Multinational firms, international production and home employment; Foreign production by US firms and parent firm employment; Foreign direct investment and employment: home country experience in Italy; Multinational firms and international trade: FDI and export, FDI and intra-firm trade; Relationships between trade and FDI flows within two panels of US and French industries; Intra-firm trade and foreign direct investment: an empirical analysis of French firms
Summary
This collection of essays shows the high degree of complementarity between foreign direct investment and home export, challenging the long held fear that firms investing abroad leads to a loss of employment and decline in the home country
