, 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 …

Despite the persistent fears that production abroad by U.S. multinationals reduces employment at home, there has, in … fact, been almost no aggregate shift of production or employment to foreign countries. Some continuing shifts to foreign … associated with lower employment at home for a given level of production. The reason is that U.S. multinationals tend to allocate …

-owned establishments account for a larger proportion of employment. Foreign-owned establishments that were new in 1990, mostly takeovers … and average wages were larger where employment growth was lower, possibly an indication that lower-productivity, lower …

. First, the relationships between Japanese export levels and employment in foreign affiliates of Japanese MNCs are analyzed … analyzes the relation of changes in Japanese exports to levels of and changes in employment in Japanese and U.S. MNC affiliates …. The level of Japan's manufactured exports to a country is almost always positively related to employment in foreign …