Against the background of the hotly debated issue of Germany's attractiveness as a business location, the article assess whether, and to what extent, the increased propensity of German companies to invest abroad indicates an exodus of German industry and has negative effects on domestic jobs....

In light of current changes in the German industrial relations' landscape and the wider and deeper integration of German multinationals into the world economy, this study investigates the relative importance of the country-of-origin effect in employee relations of German affiliates in an...