, Japanese firms resembled U.S. multinationals. A Japanese parent's employment, given the level of its production, tends to be … similar to that of Swedish firms, but contrasts with that of U.S. firms. U.S. firms appear to reduce employment at home …-wage countries. We conclude that in Japanese firms and ancillary employment at home to service foreign operations outweighs any …

Many developing countries would like to increase the share of modern or formal sectors in their employment. One way to …, previous research on the issue has been limited by the paucity of long data sets for firm operations.We examine employment … from domestic ones. Employment growth is relatively high in foreign-owned establishments, although foreign firms own …

.S. since 1950. While foreign-owned firms accounted for only about 3% per cent of total U.S. employment after all the recent …. Foreign firms accounted for almost 40 per cent of chemical industry employment, but for less than 10 per cent in all the other …