, 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 …

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 …

We compare the relation between foreign affiliate production and parent employment in U.S. manufacturing multinationals … associated with more employment, particularly blue-collar employment, in the parent companies. The small Swedish-owned production … that does take place in developing countries is also associated with more white-collar employment at home. The effects on …