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Multinational Firms and Impacts on Employment, Trade and Technology: New Perspectives for a New Century book cover

1st Edition

Multinational Firms and Impacts on Employment, Trade and Technology New Perspectives for a New Century

Edited By Robert E. Lipsey, Jean-Louis Mucchielli Copyright 2001
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge
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For decades governments, politicians, and trade unions have feared that firms investing abroad involved a loss of employment and a decline in wages for the home country, the implied assumption being that global production and consumption are somehow fixed. Similarly, research on multinational firms has tended to present them as having a number of alternatives - export, licensing or foreign direct... Read more
Part I: Multinational Firms, International Production and Home Employment

1. Foreign Production by US Firms and Parent Firm Employment

Part II: Multinational Firms and International Trade: FDI and Export, FDI and Intra-Firm Trade

2. Relationships between Trade and FDI Flows within Two Panels of US and French Industries

3. Intra-Firm Trade and Foreign Direct Investment: an Empirical Analysis of French Firms

4. Foreign Investment Transactions and International Trade Linkages

5. Intra-Firm Trade and Market Structure

Part III: Multinational Firms, Linkages and Spillover Effects

6. Linkages, Multinationals and Industrial Development

7. Local Procurement by Japanese Manufacturing Affiliates

Part IV: Multinational Firms, Structure and Diffusion of Technology and Innovation: How it is Structured in the Context of Globalization

8. The Effectiveness of Intellectual Property Rights: an Exploration of French Survey Data

9. The Innovative Activities of Multinational Firms in Italy

10. Innovative Strategies and Know-How Flows in International Companies: Some Evidence from Belgian Manufacturing

11. Foreign Direct Investment as Technology Sourcing

Biography

Lipsey, Robert E. ; Mucchielli, Jean-Louis

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