is an important determinant of its impact at home. Market-seeking FDI in manufacturing is associated with significant … scale effects, resulting in job creation. By contrast, factor-seeking FDI in manufacturing has no significant effect on … employment. However, there is some evidence that this type of FDI is associated with technology effects, in the form of greater …

’s performance can be explained by the aggregation of heterogeneous effects depending on the FDI motives, sectors and locations …. Results suggest, in line with previous work, that on average Japanese outward FDI has limited effects (whether positive or … of FDI to low income countries, for which a contraction of employment and investment and exports is observed. By contrast …

), with a particular emphasis on institutions and natural resources. Relying on a novel dataset of bilateral FDI flows between … 1996 and 2007, we demonstrate that FDI from the South has a more regional aspect than investment stemming from the North …. Institutional distance has an asymmetric effect on FDI depending on whether investors choose countries with better or worse …